[199] Inf. i. 118-120.
[200] See esp. Luke vii. 18-23, where, in answer to a question from the Baptist’s disciple, He gives a “demonstration” of Messianic works, and says “Go and describe what you have seen.”
[201] Not only in the formally “didactic passages” does he act—in Croce’s words, “like a master who knows, and is bent on making it clear to the pupil.” Op. cit., p. 121.
[202] Purg. i. 71.
[203] Purg. v. 61 sqq.
[204] Purg. xxvii. 142.
[205] Par. xxxi. 85.
[206] Purg. xxvi. 13.
[207] Purg. xxiii. 73 sqq.
[208] Purg. xxi. 61 sqq.