The book The Spiritual Sense of Dantes Divina Commedia was written by author Harris, William Torrey, 1835-1909 Here you can read free online of The Spiritual Sense of Dantes Divina Commedia book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Spiritual Sense of Dantes Divina Commedia a good or bad book?
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Scartazzini, in his commentary (Nota A, Inf. , xvi, 106), holds that the cord is not a mere symbol, but also a real cord the cord of the Franciscan order, with which Dante had once (according to old tradition) girded himself in the habit of a novice, thinking to tame the appetites of the flesh (prender la lonza). " The cord has become superfluous since Dante has left behind the circles wherein lux- ury is punished. " This cord is used merely to excite the attention of Geryon ; or does it sugges...t to Geryon the approach of an apostate from the Franciscan order one who has discarded his girdle of renunciation, a hypocritical Franciscan, secretly unfaithful to the rules of his order (as suggested by Philalethes in his commentary) ? This is certainly 80 The Spiritual Sense of house of Jacob from a people of strange language, " celebrating their escape from the bondage of sin. The first terrace of the steep mountain of Purgatory is devoted to the souls who procrastinated their repentance. Manfred tells them that one who dies in contumacy of the holy church must staj" on the plain that surrounds the ascent for a period thirty times as long as the period of his presumption.
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