[253] Convito, Tr. IV. c. 15.
[254] Purgatorio, XVI. 142. Here is Milton's "Far off his coming shone."
[255] Purgatorio, XV. 7, et seq.
[256] See, for example, Inferno, XVII. 127-132; Ib. XXIV. 7-12; Purgatorio, II. 124-129; Ib., III. 79-84; Ib., XXVII. 76-81; Paradiso, XIX. 91-93; Ib. XXI. 34-39; Ib. XXIII. 1-9.
[257] Inferno, XXXI. 136-138.
"And those thin clouds above, in fakes and bars,
That give away their motion to the stars."
Coleridge, "Dejection, an Ode."
See also the comparison of the dimness of the faces seen around him in Paradise to "a pearl on a white forehead." (Paradiso, III. 14.)
[258] Inferno, X. 35-41; Purgatorio, VI. 61-66; Ib., X. 133.
[259] For example, Cavalcanti's Come dicesti egli ebbe? (Inferno,
X. 67, 68.) Anselmuccio's Tu guardi si, padre, che hai? (Inferno,
XXXIII. 51.)