Peer review declarationThe publisher (AOSIS) endorses the South African 'National Scholarly Book Publishers Forum Best Practice for Peer Review of Scholarly Books'. The manuscript was subjected to rigorous two-step peer review prior to publication, with the identities of the reviewers not revealed to the author(s). The reviewers were independent of the publisher and/or authors in question. The reviewers commented positively on the scholarly merits of the manuscript and recommended that the manuscript be published. Where the reviewers recommended revision and/or improvements to the manuscript, the authors responded adequately to such recommendations.'Oh!', diss' io lui, 'per entro i luoghi tristi venni stamane, e sono in prima vita, ancor che l'altra, sí andando, acquisti'.'Ag,' sê ek vir hom, 'vanoggend het ek gekom uit die droewe oorde -ek is nog in die eerste lewe hoewel ek, só onderweg, die ander lewe sal bekom.'