‘Of Mary, in that supreme moment, Dante says the least that is possible…. Not even Dante could imagine an answer spoken by the Virgin Mother. She holds her eyes steadily on Bernard to signify her consent, then directs them on the Eternal Light…. They do not even smile; after so many smiles of Beatrice that would be at once too much and too little’ (E. Pistelli, L.D.). There is again the sam...
The scene presented in the first lines of the canto, of the sun and moon as if girt and held for an instant by the east and west horizons and standing on opposite scales of a balance hung from the zenith, the one scale rising as the other falls, is no mere picturesque irrelevance and superfluous elaboration in the account of Beatrice. That vast momentary poise of the two great luminaries is emp...
The account of the singing of the souls in the successive planetary spheres is another example of Dante’s consistent inventiveness. In the four lower spheres, of the Moon, Mercury, Venus and the Sun, the subjects of the songs are named and the singing in each is described with ever fuller expressions of his delight in it. Then, in the heaven of Mars, ‘a melody gathered through the cross which...
In no other instance of his passage with Beatrice from one planetary sphere to the next does Dante give so much space and significance to the fact as here. When he was brought from the red glow of Mars into the white serenity of Jupiter, from the virtues that belong to war to those of peace, ‘I saw her eyes so clear, so joyous, that her aspect surpassed all it had been at other times, even the...
Solomon is commended for making his own kingly business his first care, and that philosophers and theologians are made to share their lesson and their reproach with Dame Bertha and Master Martin who pass their easy judgements on their neighbours. 这样一解释……不是把Augustine(和Jerome)也一起扫射进去了吗(
At the beginning of the canto Charles Martel is called ‘the life’ —la vita, here rendered ‘the living soul’—‘of that holy light’. This singular use of the word occurs six times in the Paradiso and nowhere else in the Divine Comedy. It is apparently Dante’s device by which to impress on the reader from time to time that the spirits that are hidden in their own radiance are not thereby r...
Dante & Charles Martel When he wrote these lines Dante was a different man living in a different world, an exile and a refugee whose dearest hopes had been defeated, and defeated largely by that house of Anjou which in his youth he had learned to trust and which in recent years had been the main force against his hero, the young Emperor Henry VII, in his great stroke for public order—as Da...
The gentle nature, once yielding to wrong, now rejoices in perfect obedience—‘In His will is our peace’; the adventurous spirit, once eager for glory, now glories in God’s cause on earth, the flight of the Eagle; and souls born amorous, when they are chastened and deepened, do not lose their ardour and tenderness but live now in the fellowship of ‘the high Seraphim’, the appointed spirits...
Justinian represents, not Roman arms, but Roman law; for not arms but law, and arms only for the sake of law, was Rome’s glory and its gift to the world, the Pax Romana, the boon of world-order and peace. It may seem a curious irrelevancy that Justinian had first to be corrected in his theology before he was qualified to codify the law, and that the fact is emphasized, in Dante’s way, by the ...
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