Purgatorio (137 page)
Authors: Dante
136–141.
This seventh and last Purgatorial address to the reader opens a new subject that the poet will share with us, the formal requirements of his poem. If he had more space (another few lines? another canto?), he would tell us what Eunoe tasted like. The early commentators think that he means that he has run out of cantos (i.e., he cannot have a thirty-fourth as he did for
Inferno
). Tozer (1901) was perhaps the first to think that it was the number of verses in each
cantica
(4,720, 4,755, 4,758 respectively) that Dante refers to. That seems a possible, if dubious, hypothesis. We might also note that he had just completed the longest canto in the entire work in the preceding one (XXXII is 160 lines long), and ostensibly thus had available at least fifteen more lines. Thomas Hart (Hart.1995.1) reviews his copious work that would have us believe, among other things, that all the canto lengths of the poem were decided by Dante early on. (For a rejoinder see the note to
Inf
. VI.28–32.)
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142–145.
The phrasing, with all its repeated “ri” sounds, reminiscent of the resurrective surge at the opening of the
cantica
(
Purg
. I.18), underlines the reconstituted innocence of this Adamic being. Scartazzini suggests that we should hear, in verse 144, a resonance of St. Paul (Ephesians 4:23), “And be renewed in the spirit of your mind.”
That the three
cantiche
all end with the word
stelle
(stars) is no longer a surprise. It is important to attempt to imagine the effect of this repetition on a reader who does not know that it is coming, who is suddenly jarred into realizing the pattern, into realizing the shaping force of divine beauty on this poem.
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Index of these items (in their English forms, where these exist) in the Italian text of
Purgatorio
. NB: (1) if a character or place is mentioned more than once in a canto, only the first reference is indicated; (2) no distinction has been made between direct and indirect references; i.e., one will find “Amata” instead of “Lavinia, mother of.”
Abbot of San Zeno. See
Gherardo II
Abydos,
XXVIII.74
Acan,
XX.109
Adam,
I.24
;
IX.10
;
XI.44
;
XXVIII.142
;
XXIX.86
;
XXXII.37
;
XXXIII.62
Adige,
XVI.115
Adrian V,
XIX.89
Adriatic,
XIV.92
Aeneas,
XVIII.137
Aeolus,
XXVIII.21
Africanus. See
Scipio
Agathon,
XXII.107
Aglauros,
XIV.139
Ahasuerus,
XVII.28
Alagia,
XIX.142
Alagna,
XX.86
Albert (“Alberto tedesco”),
VI.97
Alberto della Scala,
XVIII.121
Alcmaeon,
XII.50
Alessandria,
VII.135
Alphonso III,
VII.116
Amata,
XVII.35
Ananias,
XX.112
Anastagi,
XIV.107
Anchises,
XVIII.137
Antenori,
V.75
Antigone,
XXII.110
Antiphon,
XXII.106
Apennines,
V.96
Arachne,
XII.43
Aragon,
III.116
Archemorus,
XXVI.94
Archiano,
V.95
Aretine. See
Benincasa da Laterina
Argia,
XXII.110
Arnaut Daniel,
XXVI.142
Arrigo Mainardi,
XIV.97
Asopus,
XVIII.91
Assyrians,
XII.59
Athena,
XV.98
Augustus,
VII.6
;
XXIX.116
. See also
Octavian
Averroës,
XXV.63
Azzo of Este,
V.77
Babel,
XII.34
Bacchus,
XVIII.93
Bagnacaval,
XIV.115
Baptist. See
John (the Baptist)
Barbagia,
XXIII.94
Barbarossa, Friedrich,
XVIII.119
Bartolomeo Pignatelli,
III.124
Beatrice (daughter of Charles II),
XX.80
Beatrice of Este,
VIII.73
Beatrice (of Provence),
VII.128
Belacqua,
IV.98
Benevento,
III.128
Benincasa da Laterina,
VI.13
Bernardin di Fosco,
XIV.101
Bismantova,
IV.26
Bologna,
XIV.100
Bolsena,
XXIV.24
Bonagiunta (Orbicciani da Lucca),
XXIV.19
Boniface VIII,
XX.87
Bonifazio,
XXIV.29
Brabant, the Lady of,
VI.23
Bretinoro,
XIV.112
Briareus,
XII.28
Brindisi,
III.27
Bruges,
XX.46
Buonconte (da Montefeltro),
V.88
Caecilius,
XXII.98
Caesar (Imperator),
VI.92
Calboli,
XIV.89
Calliope,
I.9
Campagnatico,
XI.66
Campaldino,
V.92
Canavese,
VII.136
Capets (French royal house),
XX.43
Cappelletti,
VI.106
Carolingians,
XX.53
Casella,
II.76
Casentino,
V.94
Castrocaro,
XIV.116
Cato (the Younger),
I.31
;
II.119
Ceres,
XXVIII.51
Charles I (King of Naples),
VII.113
;
XI.137
;
XX.67
Charles II (King of Naples),
V.69
;
VII.127
;
XX.79
Charles of Lorraine,
XX.54
Charles (of Valois),
XX.71
Chiassi,
XXVIII.20
Chiavari,
XIX.100
Chiron,
IX.37
Cimabue,
XI.94
Circe,
XIV.42
Clement IV,
III.125
Cleopas,
XXI.8
Clio,
XXII.58
Clotho,
XXI.27
Colle,
XIII.115
Conio,
XIV.116
Conradin,
XX.68
Constance, Empress,
III.113
Corsicans,
XVIII.87
Corso Donati,
XXIV.82
Cosenza,
III.124
Crassus,
XX.116
Cupid,
XXVIII.66
Currado da Palazzo,
XVI.124
Currado Malaspina (the Old),
VIII.119
Currado Malaspina (the Young),
VIII.65
Cyrus,
XII.56
Cytherea,
XXVII.95
Daniel,
XXII.146
David,
X.65
Deidamia,
XXII.114
Deiphyle,
XXII.110
Delos,
XX.130
Diana,
XXV.131
Diana (river),
XIII.153
Domitian,
XXII.83
Douai,
XX.46
Ebro,
XXVII.3
Edward I,
VII.132
Egypt,
II.46
Elbe,
VII.99
Elias,
XXXII.80
Elsa,
XXXIII.67
England,
VII.131
Eriphyle,
XII.50
Erysichthon,
XXIII.26
Este,
V.77
Esther,
XVII.29
Eteocles,
XXII.56
Ethiopian,
XXVI.21
Euneus,
XXVI.95
Eunoe,
XXVIII.131
;
XXXIII.127
Euphrates,
XXXIII.112
Euripides,
XXII.106
Europe,
VIII.123
Eve,
VIII.99
;
XII.71
;
XXIV.116
;
XXIX.24
;
XXX.52
;
XXXII.32
Fabbro,
XIV.100
Fabricius,
XX.25
Faenza,
XIV.101
Falterona,
XIV.17
Fano,
V.71
Federigo Novello,
VI.17
Federigo Tignoso,
XIV.106
Filippeschi,
VI.107
Forese Donati,
XXIII.48
;
XXIV.74
Forlì,
XXIV.32
Franco of Bologna,
XI.83
Frederick II (Emperor),
XVI.117
Frederick II (King of Sicily),
III.116
;
VII.119
French,
XVI.126
Fulcieri da Calboli,
XIV.58
Gabriel,
X.34
Gaia,
XVI.140
Gallura,
VIII.81
Gano degli Scornigiani,
VI.17
Ganymede,
IX.23
Gascony,
XX.66
Gentucca,
XXIV.37
Geryon,
XXVII.23
Ghent,
XX.46
Gherardo,
XVI.124
Gherardo II,
XVIII.118
Ghibellines,
XI.113
Ghino di Tacco,
VI.14
Gideon,
XXIV.125
Gilboa,
XII.41
Giotto,
XI.95
Giovanna (daughter of Nino Visconti),
VIII.71
Giovanna (wife of Buonconte da Montefeltro),
V.89
Giraud de Borneil,
XXVI.120
Giuseppe della Scala,
XVIII.124
Gomorrah,
XXVI.40
Gregory,
X.75
Gubbio,
XI.80
Guccio de’ Tarlati,
VI.15
Guglielmo Aldobrandesco,
XI.59
Guido Cavalcanti,
XI.97
Guido da Castel,
XVI.125
Guido da Prata,
XIV.104
Guido di Carpigna,
XIV.98
Guido Guinizzelli,
XI.97
;
XXVI.92
Guittone (d’Arezzo),
XXIV.56
;
XXVI.124
Haman,
XVII.26
Helice,
XXV.131
Helicon,
XXIX.40
Heliodorus,
XX.113
Hellespont,
XXVIII.71
Henry I (King of Navarre),
VII.104
Henry of England,
VII.131
Hermitage, The,
V.96
Hippocrates,
XXIX.137
Holofernes,
XII.59
Homer,
XXII.101
Hugh Capet,
XX.49
Iarbas,
XXXI.72
Ida (mountain),
IX.22
Indian,
XXVI.21
Indians,
XXXII.41
Iris,
XXI.50
Ismene,
XXII.111
Ismenus,
XVIII.91
Israel,
II.46
.
Jacopo da Lentini,
XXIV.56
Jacopo del Cassero,
V.64
James (King of Aragon),
III.116
;
VII.119
Jocasta,
XXII.56
John (the Baptist),
XXII.152
John (the Evangelist),
XXIX.105
;
XXXII.76
Jordan,
XVIII.135
Joseph,
XV.91
Joshua,
XX.111
Jove (Jehovah),
VI.118
Jove,
XII.32
;
XXIX.120
;
XXXII.112
Jude,
XXIX.142
Justinian,
VI.89
Juvenal,
XXII.14
Lacedaemon,
VI.139
Langia,
XXII.112
Latona,
XX.131
Lavagna,
XIX.101
Lavinia,
XVII.37
Leah,
XXVII.101
Leander,
XXVIII.73
Lerici,
III.49
Lerida,
XVIII.101
Lethe,
I.40
;
XXVI.108
;
XXVIII.25
;
XXIX.7
;
XXX.76
;
XXXI.1
;
XXXII.84
;
XXXIII.96
Levi,
XVI.132
Libano,
XXX.11
Lille,
XX.46
Limoges,
XXVI.120
Lizio,
XIV.97
Louis (kings of France),
XX.50
Lucca,
XXIV.20
Lucifer,
XII.25
Lucy,
IX.55
Luke,
XXI.7
Lycurgus,
XXVI.94
Maghinardo Pagano,
XIV.118
Magpies (daughters of Pierus),
I.11
Mainardi,
XIV.113
Malvicini,
XIV.115
Manfred,
III.112
Manto,
XXII.113
Mantua,
VI.72
Marcellus,
VI.125
Marchese, Messer,
XXIV.31
Marcia,
I.79
Marco,
XVI.46
Maremma,
V.134
Margaret,
VII.128
Marie of Brabant,
VI.23
Mars (the god),
XII.31
Mars (the planet),
II.14
Marseilles,
XVIII.102
Martin IV,
XXIV.20
Mary,
XXIII.30
Marzucco,
VI.18
Matelda,
XXVIII.40
;
XXIX.1
;
XXXI.92
;
XXXII.28
;
XXXIII.15
Meleager,
XXV.22
Metellus,
IX.138
Michael,
XIII.51
Michal,
X.68
Midas,
XX.106
Midian,
XXIV.126
Milan,
XVIII.120
Milanese,
VIII.80
Minerva,
XV.98
;
XXX.68
. See also
Pallas
and
Athena
Minos,
I.77
Moldau,
VII.99
Monaldi,
VI.107
Montecchi,
VI.106
Montefeltro,
V.88
Montferrat,
VII.136
Mordecai,
XVII.29
Morocco,
IV.139
Moses,
XXXII.80
Naiads,
XXXIII.49
Naples,
III.27
Nella,
XXIII.87
Nello de’ Pannocchieschi,
V.135
Nicholas,
XX.32
Nile,
XXIV.64
Nimrod,
XII.34
Nino, Judge,
VIII.53
Niobe,
XII.37
Noli,
IV.25
Normandy,
XX.66
Notary, The. See
Jacopo da Lentini
