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Title: Dante and the early astronomers

Author: M. A. Orr

Release date: February 7, 2021 [eBook #64489]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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Frontispiece

DANTE STUDYING.

From a fresco by Luca Signorelli at Orvieto.

Or vedi insieme l’uno e l’altro polo, Le stelle vaghe e lor viaggio torto; E vedi ’l veder nostro quanto è corte. Petrarch.

DANTE
AND THE
Early Astronomers

BY
M. A. ORR
(Mrs. John Evershed).

Plainness and clearness without shadow of stain, Clearness divine! Ye heavens, whose pure dark regions have no sign Of languor, though so calm, and though so great Are yet untroubled and unpassionate; Who, though so noble, share in the world’s toil, And though so tasked keep free from dust and soil!
You remain A world above man’s head, to let him see How boundless might his soul’s horizons be, How vast, yet of what clear transparency. Matthew Arnold.

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