[405] “The unpeopled world.” Inf. xxvi. 117.
[406] “Behind the sun.” Ibid.
[407] Conv. III. v. 117, 118.
[408] Refraction makes the pole visible a little before one reaches the equator, but such refinements need not be considered in dealing with a popular work like the Convivio.
“There riseth up from Ethiopia’s sands A wind from far-off clime which rends the air, Through the sun’s orb that heats it with its ray. The sea it crosses; thence, o’er all the lands Such clouds it brings that but for wind more fair O’er all our hemisphere ’twould hold its sway; And then it breaks and falls in whitest spray Of frozen snow and pestilential showers.” Canz. xv. 14-21. (Plumptre).
[410] “Now heats it.”
[411] “This hemisphere.”
[412] Just as in Par. xxviii. 80.
[413] Qu. xix. 53-57, and repeated in xxi. 36-40.