“Never to thee presented art or nature Pleasure so great as the fair limbs wherein I was enclosed, which scattered are in earth.”

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The Gemini, or Twins, are Castor and Pollux, the sons of Leda. And as Jupiter, their father, came to her in the shape of a swan, this sign of the zodiac is called the nest of Leda. Dante now mounts up from the Heaven of the Fixed Stars to the Primum Mobile, or Crystalline Heaven. ↩

Dante’s desire to know in what part of this heaven he was. ↩

All the other heavens have their Regents or Intelligences. See Notes 1240 . But the Primum Mobile has the Divine Mind alone. ↩