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Dante's Paradiso: Canto I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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Life of the Spirit , Volume 10 , Issue 113 , November 1955 , pp. 180 - 184
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Copyright © 1955 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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1 God.

2 The two peaks of Parnassus.

3 The satyr Marsyas challenged Apollo to a musical match: he was beaten and for the presumption.

4 Cirrha a peak of parnassus sacred to Apollo.

5 The four circles are the celestial equator, the zodiac, the equinoctial colure and the Horizon A. t their point of intersection the sun rises in the spring equinox.

6 The fisherman Glaucus saw a fish revive on eating a certain weed; ate it himse” turned into a sea-god.

7 Cf. 2 Corinthians xii, 2-3: ‘whether in the body or out of the body, I know not; knoweth.’ The part of the human being created last ('latest’) is the rational soul.

8 The music of the spheres: cf. Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice V, 1.

9 The Empyrean Heaven, containing the Primum Mobile.