“Up starting suddenly he cried out: How Saidst thou? ‘he had?’ Is he not still alive? Does not the sweet light strike upon his eyes?” Inf. x. 67-69.
[555] Toynbee’s Dante Dictionary, under “Cavalcanti.”
[556] Moore, Studies in Dante III. p. 146.
[557] “The Astronomy of Dante,” in Studies III., and Time References in the Divina Commedia.
[558] Note on Purg. i. 19-21 in the “Temple” edition of Dante.
[559] Par. Lost vii. 375-378.
[561] Preface to Almanach Dantis Aligherii, Boffito and Melzi d’ Eril.
[562] It is important to observe that this suits the description of the “Lion’s breast” better than the 20th and 21st degrees (Almanach positions for 1301), if Dante, as usual in the Divina Commedia, identifies the constellation with the sign.
[563] The middle of March.