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(Convito, Tr. III. c. 15.)
[130] Purgatorio, XXXI. 103,104.
[131] Tr. IV. c. 22.
[133] Purgatorio, 100-102.
[133] Such is the _selva oscura_ (Inferno, I. 2), such, the _selva
erronea di questa vita_ (Convito, Tr. IV. c. 24).
[134] Convito, Tr. I. c. 13.
[135] Convito, Tr. II. c. 2.
[136] _Mar di tutto il senno_, he calls Virgil (Inferno, VIII. 7).
Those familiar with his own works will think the phrase singularly
applicable to himself.
[137] Convito, Tr. III. c. 9.
[138] Convito, Tr. III. c. 3.
[139] Vita Nuova, XI.
[140] Vita Nuova, Tr. II. c. 6.
[141] Convito, Tr. IV. c. 24. The date of Dante's birth is uncertain,
but the period he assigns for it (Paradiso, XXII. 112-117) extends
from the middle of May to the middle of June. If we understand Buti's
astrological comment, the day should fall in June rather than May.
[142] Vita Nuova, XXXIX. Compare for a different view, "The New Life
of Dante, an Essay with Translations," by C. E. Norton, pp. 92. et
seq.
[143] There is a passage in the Convito (Tr. III. c. 15) in which
Dante seems clearly to make the distinction asserted above, "And
therefore the desire of man is limited in this life to that
_knowledge_ (_scienzia_) which may here be had, and passes not save
by error that point which is beyond our natural understanding.
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