Commedia and Canzoniere Author:Dante Alighieri General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1887 Original Publisher: Isbister Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / Italian Poetry / Continental European Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edit... more »ion of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: So spreads its goodness that supreinest Mind, Through all the stars in phases manifold, Kevolving still in unity defined ; And diverse virtues diverse compounds mould With bodies precious which they animate, i Wherein, as life in you, their place they hold. Through the glad nature which doth radiate, The infused virtue shines through body bright, As gladness doth your eyes illuminate. Hunce comes it that there seems 'twixt light and light . r, This variance, and not from dense and rare : This is the formal cause which works in might, Proportioned to its goodness, dull or clear." CANTO III. Diversity of Rewards -- Unity of Blessedness -- The Souls viho have not kept their Vcncs -- Piccarda -- Comtunce. That sun which erst with love had warmed my breast, Had, proving and reproving, shown to me The aweet aspect of truth with beauty blest; And I, to own myself from error free, And firm in faith as far as met the need, s Lifted my head as if for colloquy. But then a vision came and bade me heed, And fixed my gaze with such a binding spell, That my confession I forgot to speed. E'en as in mirror clear and bright, or well 10 Of waters pure and tranquil and serene, So deep, its bottom is just visible, 1 The sun is, as it) C. xxx. 75, Beatrice, as illuminating and vivifying Dante's intellect. So Virgil in H. xi. 91, and Philosophy in Cottv. iv. I. 3 The two words "provando e ri/irovando" proving truth and refuting error, are said to have been taken as a motto by...« less