“Towards us came the being beautiful, Vested in white, and in his countenance Such as appears the tremulous morning star.” Purg. xii. 88-90. (Longfellow).
[355] “He who drew beauty from Mary, as the Morning Star does from the Sun.”
Par. xxxii. 107, 108.
[356] “All the seven.” Son. xxviii. 14, and Par. xxii. 148.
[357] “The oblique circle which carries the planets.”
[358] Par. xvi. 34-39.
[359] “About a year.”
[360] “Three,” for “thirty.”
[361] Conv. II. vii. 88, 89.
[362] “The star of Venus had twice revolved in that circle of hers which makes her appear as evening and morning star, according to her two seasons, since the translation of that holy Beatrice who lives in heaven with the angels and on earth in my soul, when that Gentle Lady, of whom I made mention at the end of the ‘New Life,’ appeared first before my eyes, escorted by Love, and took some place in my mind.” Conv. II. ii. 1-12.