innocence manifest to all the world, of unceasing sweat and toil in study? Far be it from the friend of philosophy, so senseless a degradation, befitting only a soul of clay, as to submit himself to be paraded like a prisoner, as some infamous wretches have done! Far be it from the advocate of justice, after being wronged, to pay tribute to them that wronged him, as though they had deserved well of him! No! this is not the way for me to return to my country. If another can be found which does not derogate from the fame and honour of Dante, that will I take with no lagging steps. But if by no such way Florence may be entered, then will I re-enter Florence never. What can I not everywhere gaze upon the sun and the stars? can I not under any sky meditate on the most precious truths, without first rendering myself inglorious, nay ignominious, in the eyes of the people and city of Florence? Nay, bread will not fail me!

"ESTNE ISTA REVOCATIO GLORIOSA ? "

REAT poet, patriot, and philosopher,

How mighty wast thou in thy solitude! Like some lone rock exposed to buffets rude From wind and wave, when angry tempests stir The ocean to its depths. Thou didst prefer

To live apart, and scorn the tyrant brood That sought to shake thee from thy lofty mood, And bend the iron will that would not err. They knew thee not, who thought that thou couldst sell

Thy name and fame, and palter with their lies, That thou mightst enter Florence, there to dwell Where Beatrice dwelt, debased in thine own eyes. Not such the soul to pass unscathed through Hell, And stand with Beatrice pure in Paradise!

(T.)

INDEX OF PASSAGES

DIVINA COMMEDIA

PAGE

Escape from the Sea (Inf. i. 22-7)

Loss after Gain (Inf. i. 55-60)

Cowardice (Inf. ii. 37-48)

Hope renewed (Inf. ii. 127-30; viii. 106-7)

Autumn Leaves (Inf. iii. 112-20)

Dante enrolled among the Honourable Company of
Poets (Inf. iv. 79-102)

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The Pale Thin Ghosts of Mighty Heroes Dead (Inf.

iv. 106-20)

Starlings and Cranes (Inf. v. 40-9)

Doves returning to the Nest (Inf. v. 82-6)

Bitter Remembrance (Inf. v. 121-3)

Fortune divinely ordained to preside over Human

Affairs (Inf. vii. 73-90)

The Wheel of Fortune (Inf. vii. 91-6;

A Summer Gale (Inf. ix. 64-72)

A Landslip (Inf. xii. 4-10)

; xv. 95-6)

Covetousness (Inf. xii. 49-51; Par. xxvii. 121-6)

A Green Stick hissing in the Fire (Inf. xiii. 40-5)
Envy (Inf. xiii. 64-6; Purg. xiv. 82-4)

Flakes of Fire falling like Snow (Inf. xiv. 28-37)
Brunetto Latino predicts Dante's Fame and Exile

(Inf. xv. 55-66).

Dante's Gratitude to Brunetto (Inf. xv. 82-7, 91-6).
A Cataract (Inf. xvi. 91-105)

A Baffled Falcon (Inf. xvii. 127-36).

Jason (Inf. xviii. 83-93)

Lago di Garda and the Mincio (Inf. xx. 61-6, 70-8)
The Arsenal at Venice (Inf. xxi. 7-18)

Cavalry Manoeuvres (Inf. xxii. 1-9).

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A Child rescued from Fire by its Mother (Inf. xxiii.
37-42)

The Shepherd in Winter (Inf. xxiv. 1-15):
"To scorn Delights and live Laborious Days" (Inf.
xxiv. 47-54)

Fireflies on a Summer Evening (Inf. xxvi. 25-32)
Ulysses' Longing to see the World (Inf. xxvi. 90-102)
Ulysses' Speech to his Companions (Inf. xxvi. 112-20)
Ulysses' Voyage to the West (Inf. xxvi. 124-42)
The Streams of Casentino (Inf. xxx. 62-9)
Dante rebuked by Virgil (Inf. xxx. 131-44)
Hell left behind (Inf. xxxiv. 133-9)

"The Milder Shades of Purgatory" (Purg. i. 1-12)
A Spring Morning in the Southern Hemisphere (Purg.
i. 13-27).

The Rush of Humility (Purg. i. 94-105)

The Breeze at Dawn (Purg. i. 115-17; xxviii. 16-18)

By the Sea at Daybreak (Purg. ii. 7-17)

Casella sings to Dante (Purg. ii. 106-17)

Pigeons feeding (Purg. ii. 124-31)

Sheep leaving the Fold (Purg. iii. 79-87)
King Manfred (Purg. iii. 107-8, 112-35)

"It is the Purpose that makes Strong the Vow”
(Purg. v. 10-18).

Astonishment of the Spirits at the Sight of Dante's
Shadow (Purg. v. 22-33, 37-40) .

The Death of Buonconte at Campaldino (Purg. v.
94-108)

The Fate of Buonconte's Body (Purg. v. 115-29)
The Gamester (Purg. vi. 1-9)

The Flowery Valley (Purg. vii. 73-84).

Virtue and Nobility (Purg. vii. 121-3; Canz. viii.
IOI-4)

Pilgrims "The Knell of Parting Day" (Purg. viii.
1-6)-At Dawn (Purg. xxvii. 109-12)

The Guardian Angels (Purg. viii. 25-36)
Conrad's Message to his Daughter (Purg. viii. 70-8)
Moonrise (Purg. ix. 1-9)

The Hour before the Dawn (Purg. ix. 13-18)
The Warder of Purgatory (Purg. ix. 76-84)

The Steps up to the Gate of Purgatory (Purg. ix.

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The Keys of the Gate of Purgatory (Purg. ix. 117-29)
The Annunciation (Purg. x. 34-45)

The Punishment of Pride (Purg. x. 130-9)

The Lord's Prayer (Purg. xi. 1-21)

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"Our Weakness_past Compare" (Purg. xi. 91-3;
Par. xvi. 79-81; Purg. xii. 95-6)

Earthly Renown (Purg. xi. 100-2, 115-17, 103-8)
An Angel (Purg. xii. 88-96).

The Punishment of Envy (Purg. xiii. 58-74).
Christ in the Temple (Purg. xv. 85-92)

The Martyrdom of St Stephen (Purg. xv. 106-14)
The Sun through Mist (Purg. xvii. 1-9)

The Angel of the Love of God (Purg. xix. 43-51)
"Where falls not Hail, or Rain, or any Snow

(Purg. xxi. 43-51)

The Punishment of Gluttony (Purg. xxiii. 16-33)
A Flight of Cranes (Purg. xxiv. 64-74; xxvi. 43-6)
The Angel of Abstinence (Purg. xxiv. 145-54)
The Goatherd (Purg. xxvii. 76-86)

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96

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98

99

ΙΟΙ

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104

Leah and Rachel (Purg. xxvii. 94-108)

The Lady beside the Stream (Purg. xxviii. 25-7, 34-
43, 49-51)

105

107

Birds singing at Dawn (Purg. xxviii. 7-21)

109

The Beautiful Lady in the Earthly Paradise (Purg.
xxviii. 52-66)

III

The Rivers of the Earthly Paradise (Purg. xxviii.
121-33)

The First Appearance of Beatrice (Purg. xxx. 22-33).
The Disappearance of Virgil (Purg. xxx. 43-5, 49-57)
Beatrice reveals herself (Purg. xxx. 58-73)
Mountain Snows (Purg. xxx. 85-91).

Beatrice's Reproval of Dante (Purg. xxxi. 46-63)
Springtime (Purg. xxxii. 52-60)

The Waters of Eunoë (Purg. xxxiii. 142-5)

Prayer to Apollo (Par. i. 13-15, 19-36)

128

Dante "transhumanised" (Par. i. 61-72)

130

The Order of the Universe (Par. i. 103-14)

131

Warning to the Readers of the Paradiso (Par. ii. 1-7,

10-15)

70-87)

"Wherever Heaven is, is Paradise" (Par.

"Likening Spiritual to Corporeal Forms" (Par. iv. 40-8) 136