"
Paradiso, I. 70-75.
[252] Paradiso, II. 7. Lucretius makes the same boast:--
"Avia Pieridum peragro loca nullius ante
Trita solo."
[253] Convito, Tr. IV. c. 15.
[254] Purgatorio, XVI. 142. Here is Milton's "Far off his coming
shone."
[255] Purgatorio, XV. 7, et seq.
[256] See, for example, Inferno, XVII. 127-132; Ib. XXIV. 7-12;
Purgatorio, II. 124-129; Ib., III. 79-84; Ib., XXVII. 76-81;
Paradiso, XIX. 91-93; Ib. XXI. 34-39; Ib. XXIII. 1-9.
[257] Inferno, XXXI. 136-138.
"And those thin clouds above, in fakes and bars,
That give away their motion to the stars."
Coleridge, "Dejection, an Ode."
See also the comparison of the dimness of the faces seen around him
in Paradise to "a pearl on a white forehead." (Paradiso, III. 14.)
[258] Inferno, X. 35-41; Purgatorio, VI. 61-66; Ib., X. 133.
[259] For example, Cavalcanti's _Come dicesti egli ebbe_? (Inferno,
X. 67, 68.) Anselmuccio's _Tu guardi si, padre, che hai_? (Inferno,
XXXIII. 51.)
[260] To the "bestiality" of certain arguments Dante says, "one would
wish to reply, not with words, but with a knife." (Convito, Tr. IV.
c. 14.)
[261] Convito, Tr. IV. c. 2.
[262] Paradiso, XXII.
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