Author: Dante Alighieri

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Published: 2015-07-10

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 9781331125747

Excerpt from The Paradiso of Dante Alighieri Subject matter (1-12) and invocation (13-36). The sun is in the equinoctial point. It is midday at Purgatory and midnight at Jerusalem, when Dante sees Beatrice gazing at the sun and instinctively imitates her gesture, looking away from her and straight at the sun (37-54). The light glows as though God had made a second sun, and Dante now turns once more to Beatrice who is gazing heavenward. As he looks his human nature is transmuted to the quality of heaven and he knows not whether he is still in the flesh or no (55-75). They pass through the sphere of fire and hear the harmonies of heaven, but Dante is La gloria di colui che tutto move per l' universo penetra, e risplende in una parte piu, e meno altrove. Nel ciel che piu della sua luce prende fu' io; e vidi cose che ridire ne sa ne puo qual di lassu discende; perche, appressando se al suo disire, nostro intelletto si profonda tanto, che retro la memoria non puo ire. Veramente quant' io del regno santo nella mia mente potei far tesoro, sara ora materia del mio canto. O buono Apollo, all' ultimo lavoro fammi del tuo valor si fatto vaso, come dimandi a dar l' amato alloro. Inlino a qui l' un giogo di Parnaso assai mi fu, ma or con ambo e due m' e uopo entrar nell' aringo rimaso. Entra nel petto mio, e spira tue si come quando Marsia traesti della vagina delle membra sue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."