[80] Dino Compagni, p. 135.

[81] De Monarch. lib. iii. p. 188, Ed. Fraticelli.

[82] Parad. c. 6.

[83] De Monarch. lib. ii. pp. 62, 66, 78, 82, 84, 108-114, 116, 72-76.

[84]

Litera gesta refert, quid credas allegoria,
Moralis quid agas, quid speres anagogia.
De Witte's note from Buti.

[85] Ep. ad Kan Grand. § 6, 7.

[86] Convito, Tr. 2, c. 1.

[87]

When we had run
O'er all the ladder to its topmost round,
As there we stood, on me the Mantuan fix'd
His eyes, and thus he spake: "Both fires, my son,
The temporal and the eternal, thou hast seen:
And art arrived, where of itself my ken
No further reaches. I with skill and art,
Thus far have drawn thee. Now thy pleasure take
For guide. Thou hast o'ercome the steeper way,
O'ercome the straiter. Lo! the sun, that darts
His beam upon thy forehead: lo! the herb,
The arborets and flowers, which of itself
This land pours forth profuse. Till those bright eyes
With gladness come, which, weeping, made me haste
To succour thee, thou mayest or seat thee down,
Or wander where thou wilt. Expect no more
Sanction of warning voice or sign from me,
Free of thine own arbitrement to choose,
Discreet, judicious. To distrust thy sense
Were henceforth error. I invest thee then
With crown and mitre, sovereign o'er thyself."
Purg. c. 27—Cary.