• Buti interprets this passage differently. He says:⁠— “ Vedrai ’l corregger ; that is, thou, Dante, shalt see St. Dominic, whom he calls corregger , because he wore about his waist the correggia , or leathern thong, and made his friars wear it, as St. Francis made his wear the cord;⁠— che argomenta , that is, who proves by true arguments in his constitutions, that his friars ought to study sacred theology, studying which their souls will grow fat with a good fatness; that is, with the grace of God, and the knowledge of things divine, if they do not go astray after the other sciences, which are vanity, and make the soul vain and proud.” ↩
• The Heaven of the Sun continued. The praise of St. Dominic by St. Bonaventura, a Franciscan. ↩
• By this figure Dante indicates that the circle of spirits was revolving horizontally, and not vertically. In the Convito , III 5, he makes the same comparison in speaking of the apparent motion of the sun; non a modo di mola, ma di rota , not in fashion of a millstone, but of a wheel. ↩
• Ezekiel 1:28:⁠— “As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about.” ↩
• Iris, Juno’s messenger. ↩