• The Moon, called in heaven Diana, on earth Luna, and in the infernal regions Proserpina; as in the curious Latin distich:⁠— “Terret, lustrat, agit, Proserpina, Luna, Diana, Ima, suprema, feras, sceptro, fulgore, sagittâ.” ↩
• See Canto II 59:⁠— “And I: ‘What seems to us up here diverse, Is caused, I think, by bodies rare and dense.’ ” ↩
• The Sun. ↩
• Mercury, son of Maia, and Venus, daughter of Dione. ↩
• The temperate planet Jupiter, between Mars and Saturn. In Canto XVIII 68, Dante calls it “the temperate star”; and in the Convito , II 14, quoting the opinion of Ptolemy:⁠— “Jupiter is a star of a temperate complexion, midway between the coldness of Saturn and the heat of Mars.” ↩