The Early Lives of Dante
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And of this it were easy to show many examples if the present theme allowed it, wherefore without producing any I leave it to the search of such as understand. I said 107 that angelic feathers covered his flesh ; and I say an- gelic not that I know whether angels have them such or otherwise, but speculating as mortals best can, and hearing that angels fly, I opine that they must needs have feathers ; and not knowing of any such amongst these birds of ours more beauteous nor more winsome, nay, n...or as much so, as those of the peacock, I imagine that they must needs have them so fashioned ; and so I call not those of heaven after these of earth, but these after those, because the angel is a nobler fowl than the peacock. And by these feathers, whereby the body is covered, I understand the beauty of the wondrous story which sounds upon the surface of the letter of the Comedy ; as that he descended into Hell, and examined the dis- position of the place, and the varied states of them that dwell therein ; that he climbed up the Mount of Pur- gatory, and heard the tears and lamentations of such as hope to become holy ; and thence ascended into Paradise and saw the ineffable glory of the blessed ; a story as beauteous and fascinating as was ever conceived, not to say heard, by any ; divided into an hundred cantos, even as certain have it that the peacock hath on his tail an hundred eyes, which Cantos distinguish the variance pertaining to the matter dealt with as carefully as the eyes distinguish the colours or the differences of the io8 things presented to them.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
And of this it were easy to show many examples if the present theme allowed it, wherefore without producing any I leave it to the search of such as understand. I said 107 that angelic feathers covered his flesh ; and I say an- gelic not that I know whether angels have them such or otherwise, but speculating as mortals best can, and hearing that angels fly, I opine that they must needs have feathers ; and not knowing of any such amongst these birds of ours more beauteous nor more winsome, nay, n...or as much so, as those of the peacock, I imagine that they must needs have them so fashioned ; and so I call not those of heaven after these of earth, but these after those, because the angel is a nobler fowl than the peacock. And by these feathers, whereby the body is covered, I understand the beauty of the wondrous story which sounds upon the surface of the letter of the Comedy ; as that he descended into Hell, and examined the dis- position of the place, and the varied states of them that dwell therein ; that he climbed up the Mount of Pur- gatory, and heard the tears and lamentations of such as hope to become holy ; and thence ascended into Paradise and saw the ineffable glory of the blessed ; a story as beauteous and fascinating as was ever conceived, not to say heard, by any ; divided into an hundred cantos, even as certain have it that the peacock hath on his tail an hundred eyes, which Cantos distinguish the variance pertaining to the matter dealt with as carefully as the eyes distinguish the colours or the differences of the io8 things presented to them.
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