Dante remembers them all somewhere, for gratitude
(which is quite as rare as genius) was one of the virtues of his
unforgetting nature Boccaccio's "Comment" is later and far more
valuable than the "Life."
[119] Convito, Tr. IV. c. 17; Purgatorio, XXVII. 100-108.
[120] Convito, Tr. II. c. 8.
[121] That is, _wholly_ fulfil, _rendono intera_.
[122] We should prefer here,
"Nor inspirations _won by prayer_ availed,"
as better expressing _Ne l'impetrare spirazion_. Mr. Longfellow's
translation is so admirable for its exactness as well as its beauty
that it may be thankful for the minutest criticism, such only being
possible.
[123] Which he cites in the Paradiso, VIII. 37.
[124] Dante confesses his guiltiness of the sin of pride, which (as
appears by the examples he gives of it) included ambition, in
Purgatorio, XIII. 136, 137.
[125] Convito, Tr. II. c. 11.
[126] Purgatorio, XXVIII.
[127] Purgatorio, XXVIII. 40-44; Convito, Tr. III. c. 13.
[128] Purgatorio, XXVII. 94-105.
[129] Psalm li. 2. "And therefore I say that her [Philosophy's]
beauty, that is, morality, rains flames of fire, that is, a righteous
appetite which is generated in the love of moral doctrine, the which
appetite removes us from the natural as well as other vices.
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