Dante, the Wayfarer

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Dante, the Wayfarer
Hare, Christopher
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Thus Procne becomes a nightingale and Philomela a swallow; while both bewail their wrongs in tuneful song.
In that exquisite second Canto of the Purgaiorio — ^when the spirits are brought by the celestial pilot, chanting the psalm of the Exodus, and Casella, the sweet singer, touches all hearts by a song of Dante's own — ^thcy are reproved by the ** old man venerable," and flee away like startled doves. The simile is thus put forth : ** Come quando, cogliendo liada o loglio, li colombi adunati
...alia pastuia, queti senza mostrar I'usato orgogUo, Se cosa appare ond' elli abbian paura, suUtamente lasdano star Tesca perch^ assaliti son da maggior cura."* (wAs doves when gathering wheat or tares, all • Purg. xvii. 19. t Purg. ii. 124.
148 THE BIRDS OF DANTE collected at their repast, quietly, without their usual haiightinesst if aught aburm them, straightway leave their food because they are assailed by greater amdety; so saw I that new company leave the sing- ing, and go towards the hill-side.") But the most striking occasion when the poet recalls the image of doves is when the two apostles, St Peter and St.


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