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See note 537 . ↩

These four Cardinal Virtues lead to Divine Wisdom, but the three Evangelical Virtues quicken the sight to penetrate more deeply into it. ↩

Standing upon the chariot still; she does not alight till line 36 of the next canto. ↩

The color of Beatrice’s eyes has not been passed over in silence by the commentators. Lani, in his “ Annotazioni ,” says:⁠—