• Like Christian going up the hill Difficulty in Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress :⁠— “I looked then after Christian to see him go up the hill, where I perceived he fell from running to going, and from going to clambering upon his hands and knees, because of the steepness of the place,” ↩
• More than forty-five degrees. ↩
• If the sun were in Gemini, or if we were in the month of May, you would see the sun still farther to the north. ↩
• Rubecchio is generally rendered red or ruddy. But Jacopo dalla Lana says: “ Rubecchio in the Tuscan tongue signifies an indented mill-wheel.” This interpretation certainly renders the image more distinct. The several signs of the Zodiac are so many cogs in the great wheel; and the wheel is an image which Dante more than once applies to the celestial bodies. ↩
• The Ecliptic. See note 247 . ↩
• This, the Mountain of Purgatory; and that, Mount Zion. ↩
• The Seven Stars of Ursa Major, the North Star. ↩