Prisoners of Hope; An Exposition of Dante's Purgatorio
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Once more as at the beginning of this Terrace his imagination throws him into a trance so deep that the sounding of a 1 Purg. xvi. 131-132; Numb. xvUi. 23, 24; De Mon, iii. 10, 14. See Purg. xxxii. 124-129, p. 477. ' Borne in the Middle Ages, v. 597 (English Translation). XV. 82-xvii. 69] BRIDLE OF ANGER 219 thousand trumpets would have passed unheard, — a figure of the way in which the passion of unholy anger snatches the soul away from the sense of the world of external realities, and wraps i...t in its own insane dreams and delusions. In Dante's case, how- ever, they are not insanities; he is walking side by side with Virgil who is Reason, and his imagination is moved by 'a light which in the heaven takes form.'^ The first vision of the ' bridle ' comes from heathen story, and shows the wild and awful 'impiety' into which the frenzy of anger sweeps the soul. ' Impiety ' here does not mean wickedness in general, but the viola- tion of the natural bonds of blood and kinship which knit families together.
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