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Paradiso (The Divine Comedy series Book 3)

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by Dante


  decretals, IX.133–135

  desire, language of, I.7

  “digressions” in Paradiso, Intro. (3)

  Dionysius the Areopagite, X.115–117; XXIX.97–102, 100

  Donatus, as “people’s grammarian,” XII.137–138

  Dostoyevski, Fyodor, XVII.91–93

  “double truth” and Siger of Brabant, X.133–135

  duration of time in Paradiso, Intro. (2)

  eagle, capacity to look directly into the Sun, I.46–48

  earth, circumference of, XXX.1–3

  effige (likeness), XXXIII.96

  Egidio Romano, XXVI.130

  Eliot, T.S., XXII.67

  epic:

  autobiographical narrative, XV.130–148

  Calliope, Muse of, XVIII.82

  Chanson de Roland, XVIII.43

  chansons de geste, XVIII.46

  classical, I.12; VI.2–3; X.82–99; XI.67–69; XX.19–21

  martial, I.68; XVIII.28–36, 39

  “mini-epic,” VI.1; XVIII.51

  theological, Intro. (1)

  epicyclical motion, VIII.3, 12

  Euclid, XIII.101–102

  Eusebius, XXVI.118–120

  examination in theology, medieval universities, XXIV.46–51, 48

  exilic figures (Adam, Virgil, Dante), XXVI.116

  faith, implicit, XIX.103–105

  fioco (weak, indistinct), XXXIII.121

  first figures in each canticle, III.35–36

  first women in each canticle, III.97–99

  flesh of the saved, corruptible or incorruptible? VII.145–148

  Florence, last time mentioned in the poem, XXXI.39

  Folchetto di Marsiglia, IX.40, 77–78, 82–93, 94, 96, 106–108, 124–126; XII.46–47; XXVI.132

  Forese Donati, III.47–48; XII.71–75; XV.95–96

  form (Scholastic term), I.106–108; III.79

  Francesca da Rimini, III.85, 86–87, 97–99; V.1–2; VIII.9; XVI.13–15, 16–18; XXV.19–24; XXIX.9; XXX.11

  Francis, St., III.1, X.70–75, 121–129; XI.43–117, 53–54, 58–60, 61–63, 64–66, 91; XII.35; XXII.37–45; XXXII.37–39

  Franciscans, Spiritual vs. Conventual, XI.58–60; XII.124–126

  frate (brother), presence of the word in the Commedia, III.70–84; XXII.61

  Friars Minor, Order of, XI.79–84

  fullness of time (kairos), VI.55–57; XXVII.148

  Gades (and not Cadiz), XXVII.82

  giardino (garden), XXIII.71

  Giovanni del Virgilio, IX.29–30; XV.28–30, 51; XXI.115–139; XXV.1, 1–9, 7–9

  glossolalia, VII.1–3, 6; XV.32–33, 39

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, XXXIII.144

  grace, as operating or cooperating, XII.40–45

  gravity, spiritual, I.136–141; III.86–87

  “great prayers” of the Church, XXVII.1–3

  Great Year (Platonic), XXVI.121–123

  Gregory the Great (pope), VIII.34–39; XVII.27; XX.106–117, 108; XXII.37–45; XXVIII.130–135; XXIX.133–135

  Guinizzelli, Guido, IX.96; XII.26–30; XV.16–18; XVI.16; XXVIII.4

  hapax legomenon, VIII.3; X.27; XI.82, 99; XII.91; XIV.1–9, 33, 88–96, 96; XV.74; XVII.31; XX.13–15, 121; XXIII.43, 50, 132; XXVI.44, 76; XXVII.115–120

  Hegel, VI.31–33

  Henry VII:

  as, in Dante’s mind, in the imperial line of chosen emperors, VI.82–91; VIII.49–51; XXX.137

  as Saul, IV.29

  Cangrande as heir to his imperial project, XVII.78, 91–93

  death as reflected by tone of depiction of Charles Martel, VIII.49–51

  Italy as unripe for his guidance, XXX.133–138

  opposition of Pope Clement V, XVII.82–84

  Scaligieri as imperial vicars of, XVII.70–71, 76–90

  Hezekiah, as “type” of Dante, XX.49–51

  holocaust (burnt offering), XIV.89

  Homer, XXIII.64–66

  honorific voi, XVI.10–12, 16–18; XVIII.130, XXXI.79–90

  Horace, XXIII.4–6; XXVI.137–138

  Hugh of St. Cher, I.70–72

  hyle (unformed matter), XXIX.22–24, 51

  hymns sung in the Starry Sphere, XXIV.113–114

  hysteron proteron, II.23–26; V.91–92; VII.112–120; XXII.109–110; XXXII.4–6

  Iacopone da Todi, XI.64–66

  Icarus, X.70–75; XV.54; XXXII.145–148

  impresa (enterprise), XXXIII.95

  inconsistencies in Paradiso, Intro. (1); III.29–30; IV.34; VI.74; IX.119–123; XIV.108; XX.130–148; XXVIII.135

  ineffability, I.1–36; XIV.103

  ingegno (genius), IV.40; XIV.103; XVIII.82–87; XXII.112–123

  ingegno paired with arte, XIV.117

  invocations, I.36; XVIII.82–87, 82; XXII.112–123, 121–123; XXIII.61–63; XXIV.58–60; XXX.97–99; XXXIII.67–75

  Isidore of Seville, XXI.111; XXIV.59; XXVI.118–120, 134; XXVIII.133–135

  Jason, II.1–18, 16, 17–18; XVI.28–32; XXV.1–9, 7

  Jerome, St., V.66–68; VII.1–3; XIII.140–142; XVIII.91–93; XXVI.118–120; XXIX.37–45, 82–84, 97–102, 100

  Jews in Heaven, XXXI.25–27

  Joachim of Flora’s three ages, XIV.28–29, 67–68

  John of Sacrobosco, XXVIII.13–15

  John the Baptist, XVIII.130–136; XXIV.13–18; XXV.1–9

  John the Evangelist, IV.29; XXXII.127–129, 139

  John XXII (pope), XXVII.22–24, 58–60, 136–138; XXX.129, 148

  Julius Caesar, VI.52–53, 55–72, 61–63, 69, 76–78, 82–91, 88–90; XV.28–30; XVI.10–12; XX.67–72

  justice:

  and Justinian, VI.1–27

  Aristotle’s eleventh moral virtue, XX.121

  as central theme of Commedia, XVIII.91–93, 91

  as thematic in Mercury, VI.121; VII.20

  earthly justice as reflective of divine, XIX.1–6, 28–30

  God’s justice as inscrutable, XIX.79–90, 97–99; XX.67–72

  Jupiter and justice, XVIII.115–117

  personal justice in a ruler, XX.61–66; XXX.133–138

  Justinian:

  his speech as “mini-epic,” VI.1

  inspired by the Holy Spirit, VI.11–12, 22–24, 88

  originality of Dante’s view of, VI.13–18

  Lactantius, X.118–120; XXIII.1–12

  Lancelot du lac, XVI.13–15

  Latin, I.97; IV.25; VII.1–3, 1–15; IX.29–30; XII.144; XV.28–30; XVI.33; XVII.34–35; XXV.1, 1–9, 8, 9; XXVII.1–3; XXIX.15; XXXI.9; XXXII.1; XXXIII.1

  Latona, XXIX.1

  latria, dulia, and hyperdulia, XXXIII.10–12

  Leah, as the active life, XXXII.8

  light, infinite speed of, XXIX.26–27

  loquacity of Cacciaguida, XIV.10–18; XVIII.36

  loquacity of Thomas, XIV.52–57, XVIII.36

  Lucan, I.16–18; VI.55–72, 61–63, 75, 80–81; IX.93; XI.67–69; XVI.10–12; XVIII.73–78; XX.67–72

  lucerna, as replacement for ombra (and see vita), VIII.19

  Lucy, St., XXXI.65–69, 102; XXXII.37–39, 136–138

  lume vs. luce, XXX.100

  lumen (as light of grace), XXX.100

  Macrobius, I.78; XVII.24

  mamma, stylistic register of, XIV.64; XXII.1–6; XXIII.121–126

  Marco Polo, IX.69; X.70–75

  Marsyas, as figuring the low style, I.20–21

  Mary, Blessed Virgin, IV.29; X.70–75; XIII.133–138; XV.133–135; XVII.89–90; XXI.84, 91–102, 111; XXII.28–29, 58–60, 121–123; XXIII.1, 73–75, 88–89, 91–102, 93, 107–108, 112–120, 121–126, 128; XXIV.13–18; XXV.98, 112–114, 122–129, 124–126

  masks, removal of, XXX.91–96; XXXIII.28–33

  materia, as technical term, I.10–12

  memory, limitations of, I.9; XXIII.50

  metaphor, IV.115–116; X.6

  Milton, John, IV.48

  mimetic art and literary imitation, XXX.64–66

  Minerva, I.20–21; XVI
II.82

  mirrors, II.19–22, 83–90, 94–105; III.17–18; XIII.128–129; XVIII.16–18; XXI.16–18, 34–42, 49–50; XXIII.46–48; XXVI.107–108; XXVIII.4–9; XXIX.4–6

  Montaigne, Michel de, XXXII.9

  Montefeltro, Guido and Buonconte, XIII.133–138

  mortals as obtuse, I.100–102

  Moses, XXXIII.139–141

  “Muse” or “muse”? XII.7–8; XV.26; XVIII.33; XXIII.21–126, 55–59

  “Muses,” Christian identity of, I.16–18; II.9

  music of the spheres, I.78

  Mussato, Albertino, IX.29–30; XV.28–30; XXV.7–9

  names of God (according to Isidore of Seville), XXVI.134

  naming oneself, XXXI.102

  Narcissus, III.17–18; V.100–104; XII.14–15

  Nathan (prophet), XII.136; XIII.140–142

  neologisms, Note on the translation

  Neptune, XXXIII.96

  Nietzsche, Friedrich, XV.48; XXXII.107–108

  Nine Worthies, XVIII.37–51

  noon, as propitious time, I.37–45

  ombra (shade), as used for saved soul (and see lucerna and vita), III.34

  Ordinamenti di Giustizia, XVI.61–63

  organo and organi (musical terms), XVII.43–45

  Origen, XXVI.16–18

  Orosius, X.118–120; XXVII.82

  Orpheus, XXXIII.19–20

  osanna, VII.1

  Ovid, I.13, 20–21, 25–27, 28–33, 67–72, 68, 73, 109–111; II.1–18, 17–18; IV.6, 100–108; V.64–72; VIII.70; IX.97–102; XII.7–8, 11–18, 14–15; XIII.13–15, 67–78; XV.13–24, 25–27; XVI.28–32; XVII.1–6, 27, 31, 43–99, 46, 46–48, 55–57, 111; XVIII.64–66; XIX.35; XX.22–29; XXI.5–12, 136–142; XXII.142–143; XXIII.25–27; XXIV.26; XXV.4, 7; XXVII.28–30, 79–87, 136–138; XXXIII.96, 145

  papacy:

  popes, saved and damned, XII.134–135

  popes of Dante’s time mainly canon lawyers, IX.133–135

  years absent from Rome, XXVII.22–24

  Paradiso:

  as “completed Convivio,” III.91–96

  as Ovidian rather than Virgilian, I.68

  longest speeches in, V.13–15

  midpoint of, XVII.1–12

  program of song in, XXI.58–60; XXXII.95

  relation between planets and seven liberal arts, VIII.136; XIV.97–102

  stylistic range of, Intro. (4)

  various meanings of, XXIII.61

  Pasiphae, XXVII.136–138

  Paul, St., I.4–6, 5, 13–15, 73, 136–141; III.7, 29–30; IV.13–15; VI.55–57; VII.145–148; IX.118–119; X.70–75, 87, 115–117; XIV.83; XV.28–30, 29; XVIII.91–93; 118–136; 130–136, 131–132; XIX.7–12, 79–81; XX.67–72, 126; XXI.127–128; XXII.37–39, 45, 50; XXIII.4–6, 45; XXIV.52–57, 64–66; XXVI.6, 9–12, 80; XXX.49, 61–66; XXXIII.52–54, 139–141

  Paulinus of Nola, I.13–15; X.118–120

  Pavia, where both Augustine and Boethius are buried, X.128

  Persephone, as Eve, XXVII.136–138

  Persius, XI.1

  Peter, St.:

  among seven martyred popes, XXVII.40–45

  as archimandrite, XI.118–123

  as betraying Jesus, XXIV.22, 39

  as first pope, XXIV.34–36

  as inspired by the Holy Spirit, XXIV.31–33; XXVI.3

  authority challenged, XXIV.124–126

  credentials to be examiner on Faith, XXIV.62–63, 108

  Peter Damian, St., XXI.106–126, 127–135; XXII.49

  Peter Lombard, XIV.34–36; XXV.67–69; XXIX.46–63, 70–81

  Peter the Sinner, XXI.121–123

  Petrarca, Francesco, VIII.76–78; XVII.32, 61–69; XXIII.104

  Petrus Comestor, XXIX.100

  phantasy, XIX.9; XXV.25

  Philo Judaeus, XVIII.91–93

  piacere, as meaning “beauty” or “pleasure,” III.52–54; XVIII.16–18; XX.73–78; XXXIII.33

  Plato, III.1; IV.22, 25, 25–27, 33, 55–63, 61–63; VII.64–65; VIII.34–39, 112–114; IX.40; X.133–138; XVII.118

  politics, in Paradiso, Intro. (5); VI.1–27, 134; VII.1–15; XXII.127–135

  poppa (poop deck), XXVII.146

  Primum Mobile as “acqueous sphere,” XXIX.19–21

  procession of the Spirit from both Father and Son, X.1–3

  Proclus, IV.24; VIII.34–39

  prologues to the three canticles, I.1–36

  prophecy, XVII.43–99, 78, 91–93, 94–96; XXII.13–15; XXVII.61–63, 142–148

  Proust, Marcel, III.47–48; XXXIII.91–93

  providence and predestination, XXI.77

  Prudentius, XXVII.136–138

  Ptolemy (astronomer), IX.118–119; XIII.1–18

  Rabanus (of England), XII.139

  Rabelais, François, XV.87

  Rachel, as the contemplative life, XXXII.8

  ragionare d’amore (to speak of love), XXVI.6

  Ravenna, XV.22–24; XVII.142; XXI.106–126, 121–123; XXXI.1–3

  reader:

  addresses to, II.1, 10; V.64–72, 73–84, 109–114; IX.10–12; X.7–15, 22–27; XIII.1–24; XV.7–12; XXII.106–111; XXIII.55–59, 64–66

  as listener, II.2; XVII.139

  Remigio dei Girolami, X.133–138; XV.130–132

  republic, Roman, VI.43–45; XV.127–129; XXVII.61–63

  resurrection of the flesh, XXX.129

  rhymes on Cristo, XII.71–75; XIV.103–108

  rhymes, identical, XXX.95–99

  Richard of St. Victor, XV.74; XXI.34–42; XXIII.50, XXXII.8; XXXIII.139–141

  Ripheus, XX.67–72, 103–105, 126; XXXI.25–27

  Ristoro d’Arezzo, XII.26–30

  Roman de la Rose, II.59–60; XXX.124

  rose-wheel window, XXXI.1–3

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, VIII.142–144

  salute (salvation), XXXI.79–81

  Samuel, as type of Christ, IV.29

  santo (holy), XXXII.1

  Satan, IX.127–129; XIX.46–48; XXVII.22–24

  Saturn, as border of the higher realm, XXI.13–15

  saved, number of the, XXX.103–108; XXXI.115–117

  Scaligieri, succession of, XVII.70–71

  Scipio Africanus, XXII.133–153; XXVII.61–63, 145–148

  Semele: a tragic tale turned comic, XXI.5–12; XXII.58–60; XXIII.46–48

  Seneca, IV.6; IX.29–30

  sermo humilis (low style), XIV.35, XXXI.1; XXXIII.2

  Servius, XXVII.136–138

  similes, I.49–54; II.106–111; XIV.118–123; XX.1–12; XXIII.1–12, 49–51; XXX.58–66

  sleep, Dante’s fascination with, XXVI.70–75

  smarrire (to confuse), XXVI.9

  Solomon, XIII.37–51, 43–48, 50–51, 52–87, 88–96, 97–102, 106–108, 109–111, 112–142, 142; XIV.34, 36, 37–60, 40–51, 52–57; XVII.27; XVIII.28–36, 91–93; XX.69; XXVI.135; XXVIII.133–135

  souls in Paradiso:

  apparent age of, XXXI.59

  as telling absolute truth, IV.94–96

  departing from view, where do they go? III.121–123

  non-speaking “extras,” III.109–129

  physical resemblance to their mortal selves, III.58–63, 109; V.124–126; XXXI.49–51

  presence in the spheres, III.29–30; XXI.31–33

  ranking of, III.88–90, 97; IV.39

  relation between rank in heavens and rank in Rose, IX.119–123

  some as bypassing purgation in direct ascent to bliss, X.121–129; XI.109–117

  some as descending twice to be seen by Dante, XXIII.19–21

  Statius, I.12; IV.100–108; XVII.31; XIX.70–78; XXV.130–135; XXXI.25–27

  style, blending of Scholastic and affective, III.1–3, 2–3

  sublimation (“transvaluation of value”), XXIII.1–12, 34

  sunrise at “noon,” XXIII.1–12

  suspensio (state of mystical “suspension”), XXXIII.97

  sussistenza as referring to souls and not angels, XIV.73


  Svevo, Italo, IV.109–114

  syncretism, I.13–15; X.99; XII.127–128

  tenth cantos as borders, X.1–6

  tëodia (god song), XXV.73, 73–78; XXX.22–27

  Tertullian, X.118–120

  tesoro, biblical overtones of, I.11; XVII.121–122

  theological virtues, three, Intro. (2); III.47–48; VI.112–117; XX.127–129; XXIII.136–139

  “third heaven” according to St. Paul, I.73; XV.29

  time left on earth, IX.40

  Tower of Babel, XXVI.124–126

  Trajan, XIX.13; XX.43–48, 106–117; XXXI.25–27

  Trinity, as attested by Scripture, XXIV.139–147

  “triple hapax,” V.11; XII.55

  Ubertino da Casale, XI.34–39, 37–39; XII.44, 124–126

  Ugolino, VI.109–110; XXII.89

  Uguccione da Pisa, XI.99; XII.80–81; XIV.96; XXV.2; XXVI.73, 118–120

  Ulysses, I.12; III.70–84; X.82–99; XI.51; XIII.136–138; XV.130–148; XVII.55–57; XXIV.151–154; XXVI.115–117; XXVII.79–87, 83

  umbra, as exegetical term, I.22–24; XIII.19–21

  Vegetius, XXIV.59

  Venantius Fortunatus, XXXIII.1

  ventre (womb, belly), as “unfit” diction, XXI.84, XXIII.104, XXXIII.7

  Venuses, two, VIII.10, 55–57

  vernacular, universal, XIV.88; XV.39

  Verona, XVII.142; XXX.117, 124–129; XXXI.1–3

  Veronica (vera icona), XXXI.103–111

  vice, various meanings of, XXX.18

  vidi (I saw), XXX.95–99

  Virgil, I.68, 73; IV.6; V.64–72, 115; VI.2–3, 35–36, 79, 139–142; VII.6, 9; VIII.130–132; IX.85; XII.7–8, 11–18; XV.13–24, 25–27, 26, 28, 28–30, 50; XVII.31, 46; XVIII.33, 42; XIX.35, 113, 130–132; XX.19–21, 67–72, 118–129, 126; XXII.20; XXIII.2, 3, 55–57; XXIV.8, 56–57; XXVI.13–15, 97; XXVII.136–138; XXX.4, 64–66, 66, 68, 125; XXXI.7–12; XXXIII.19–20, 28–33, 58–66, 65–66, 121

  Virgil (as character), I.85–87; II.29–30; IV.94–96; XIV.10–18; XVI.16; XVII.19; XVIII.8; XIX.70–78, 106–108; XXII.19–21; XXVI.5–6, 116, 118; XXXI.55–58, 79–81; XXXII.100–102, 115

  virtues, theological and cardinal, III.47–48

  “visible speech,” XVIII.91–93

  visione, dream or actual vision? III.7; XXXII.139; XXXIII.62

  vita, as term for saved soul (and see lucerna and ombra), III.34; IX.7; XII.127–128; XIV.6

  Vitruvius, XXXIII.137–138

  volume (volume), XII.122; XIX.113

  Waltherius anglicus, XVII.27

  wheel of Fortune, XXXI.1–3

  Wilder, Billy, XXXIII.15

  will, two kinds of (absolute and conditioned), IV.73–81, 109–114

 

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