The Treatment of Nature in Dante's 'divina Commedia,'
The Treatment of Nature in Dante's 'divina Commedia,'
Levi Oscar Kuhns
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also Par,^ iv. 116; xxxi 93; xxiv. 9. • Inf,, XX. 64-66* F Digitized by V^OOQ IC 82 Treatment of Nature in Dante The clearness and transparency of water are often beautifully rendered, whether he speaks of a flower-covered hill reflected from top to bottom,^ or of the • Peschiera ch'^ tranquilla e pura,' * or the little stream beneath whose surface we cto see the green g^rass bending with the current* At times the surface is so smooth that It reflects like a mirror.* In one passage the poet, wi...th an accurate touch, describes the souls iu ^the mo on as being dimly seen, like the reflection from the stilly surface of clear water, * when it is not so deep that the T)ottom cannot be seen.'^ In the sixth terrace of Purgatory there is a slender waterfall, falling from a high rock, and ^ ' E come clivo in acqua di suo imo Si specchia, quasi per vedersi adorno, Quando h nel verde e ne' fioretti opimo. (/W-., XXX. I09-III.) 2 Par,y V. lOO. • Purg,^ xxviii. 26-30. * Pwrg,, XXX. 76-77. • * O ver per acque nitide e tranquille, Non si profonde che i fondi sien persi, Toman de' nostri visi le postille Debili si, che perla in bianca fronte Non vien men forte alle nostre pupille.' (/'or., iii.
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