“And now remain, reader, on your bench, thinking over this!” Par. x. 22, 23.
[397] Thus Petrarch: “Le stelle vaghe e lor viaggio torto.” (“The wandering stars and their winding way.”) Sonetto de Morte di Madonna Laura.
[398] Cf. Conv. III. v. 76, 191.
“Which always remains between the sun and the winter.” Purg. iv. 81.
[400] Studies in Dante iii. p. 166.
[401] Purg. xxi. 46-48; Purg. xix. 38.
[402] Purg. xxviii. 143.
[403] “The land where shadows are lost.” Purg. xxx. 89.
[404] “The great dry land.” Inf. xxxiv. 113.