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* Hippocratis aphorismorum Paraphrasis poetica, Paris, 1587, by Pierre Boulenger.Google Scholar

* Note.—The word “Divine” was applied to La Commedia long after Dante's death. Dante called this work La Commedia, because he said it begins sadly amid the horrors of the Inferno and ends brightly in the perennial sunshine of Paradise.Google Scholar

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‡ See Note (a), p. 170, “Vita di Dante,” where it is related how the first seven cantos were sent on to Dante, then in exile at Lunigiana.Google Scholar

* “Proiicet ampullas et sesquipedalia verba Si curat cor spectandis tetigisse querella.” Ars Poetica, 96.Google Scholar

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* “Oh weary mantle for eternity.” Google Scholar

* Flee this greedy bank and these cruel lands.Google Scholar

* Pure and disposed to mount to the stars. Purg., c. 33–145.Google Scholar