John the Baptist. But here is meant his image on the golden florin of Florence. ↩

The Heaven of Jupiter continued. ↩

The eagle speaks as one person, though composed of a multitude of spirits. Here Dante’s idea of unity under the Empire finds expression. ↩

This mirror of Divine Justice is the planet Saturn, to which Dante alludes in Canto IX 61, where, speaking of the Intelligences of Saturn, he says:⁠—