1. 6.—I agree with Cary's second thoughts, in understanding “sza fattura" to mean "His-not 'its,' i.e. human nature's-own work." Not only is it an obvious construction to refer "fattura" to "Fattore," as in Purg. xvii. 102; but it is contrary to Dante's philosophy to attribute the generation of a child to the mother (see Purg. xxv. 40, 41, 47, 59, 6c. Moreover, he evidently had in his mind Philipp. ii. 6, 7, where St. Paul says that Christ "being in the form of God . . . made himself of ro reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men."

II. 7-9.-Compare Par. xiii. 79-81 ; xxii. 47, 48.

1. 10.-A noonday torch-i.e. a Sun. In Par. xxiii. 92 the Virgin is called a "live star."

1. 15.

"Lo his desire woll flie withouten wings."

Chaucer, Troilus and Cressida, lib. iii.

Il. 16-18.—This same idea has occurred before (Par. xvii. 73-75).

1. 27.—“ Salvation's final place." The Empyrean. Compare Par. xxii. 124.

1. 32.-Compare Purg. xxviii. 81.

Il. 41, 42.-Compare Purg. iv. 133-135.

11. 46-48, 57.—Compare Par i. 7-9.

11. 58-60.--Compare Par. xxiii. 49-51.

11. 65, 66.-See Virg. Æn. iii. 445-452.

11. 85-87.-All created things are centred in God. By "leaves" in 1. 86 we are to understand the leaves of an unbound book: which (1. 87 are afterwards bound up in a volume.

1. 91.-Compare Par. i. 103-105.

Il. 94-96.—Lombardi's explanation is no doubt the true one: viz. that one moment brought more oblivion of what he had seen to Dante than the twenty-five centuries which had elapsed since the Argonautic expedition set sail in the first ship which ever crossed the sea, had brought upon the details of that event. The expedition was supposed to have started in 1263 B.C. With 1. 96 compare Pulci, Morg. Maggiore, Canto XIV., st. 69:

Poi si vedea Nettuno col tridente

Guardar con atti ammirativi e schifi,

Quando prima Argo nel suo regno sente,
Che lo voleva a Colchi guidar Tifi.

1. 103.-Compare Purg. xvii. 127-129.

Il. 109-120.—The vision of the Trinity.

1. 114.-I understand "a me si travagliava" to mean "worked itself out for me." Some take it in the sense "grew changed to me," but that is opposed to 11. 109-111. Nor can I think, with others, that "travagliava," here, is compounded from "vaglio"-"a sieve"-which occurs in Par. xxvi. 23. It is the same verb which we find in Purg. xxi. 4.

1. 116. The circle, which has neither beginning nor end, is the fit emblem of Eternity and Infinity.

Il. 118-120.-One-the Father. Another-the Son. The third-the Holy Ghost.

1. 123. Compare Par. xi. 53.

II. 127-132.-The vision of the "taking of the manhood into God." With 11. 127, 128, compare ll. 118, 119.

1. 131.-"Our image." Christ "was made in the likeness of men" (Philipp. ii. 7).

Il. 137, 138.-i.e. how the human nature was united with the divine in the Second Person of the Trinity.

1. 139.-In Par. xxxii. 145, 146, St. Bernard had warned Dante that he could not rely upon his unaided wings.

1. 145.-The Divine Love. Compare Inf. i. 38-40.

THE END.

Aldobrandi, Tegghiaio, Inf. vi. 79; | Antipho