• When it was infused into the body, or the body became informed with it. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica , I , Quaest. LXXVI I, says:⁠— “Form is that by which a thing is⁠ ⁠… This principle therefore, by which we first think, whether it be called intellect, or intellectual soul, is the form of the body.” And Spenser, “Hymne in Honour of Beautie,” says:⁠— “For of the soule the bodie forme doth take, For soule is forme and doth the bodie make.” ↩
• Joachim di Flora, Dante’s “Calabrian Abbot Joachim,” the mystic of the twelfth century, says in his Exposition of the Apocalypse :⁠— “The deceived Gentiles believed that the planets to which they gave the names of Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Mercury, Mars, the Moon, and the Sun, were gods.” ↩
• Stated in line 20:⁠— “The violence of others, for what reason Doth it decrease the measure of my merit?” ↩