• The Primum Mobile, in which Dante and Beatrice now are. ↩
• The nearer God the circle is, so much greater virtue it possesses. Hence the outermost of the heavens, revolving round the earth, corresponds to the innermost of the Orders of Angels revolving round God, and is controlled by it as its Regent or Intelligence. To make this more intelligible I will repeat here the three Triads of Angels, and the heavens of which they are severally the Intelligences, as already given in note 1240 . The Seraphim, Primum Mobile. The Cherubim, The Fixed Stars. The Thrones, Saturn. The Dominions, Jupiter. The Virtues, Mars. The Powers, The Sun. The Principalities, Venus. The Archangels, Mercury. The Angels, The Moon. ↩
• Aeneid , XII 365, Davidson’s Tr. :⁠— “As when the blast of Thracian Boreas roars on the Aegean Sea, and to the shore pursues the waves, wherever the winds exert their incumbent force, the clouds fly through the air.” Each of the four winds blows three different blasts; either directly in front, or from the right cheek, or the left. According to Boccaccio, the northeast wind in Italy is milder than the northwest. ↩