 | Literature - 1902 - 728 pages
...in his half-delirium the thought of death settled upon Beatrice herself. "I imagined I was looking towards the heavens, and seemed to see a multitude of angels who were tending upwards and had before them a cloudlet of purest whiteness, una nubilctta bianchissima (the... | |
 | 1902 - 728 pages
...in his half-delirium the thought of death settled upon Beatrice herself. "I imagined I was looking towards the heavens, and seemed to see a multitude of angels who were tending upwards and had before them a cloudlet of purest whiteness, una nubilctta bianchissima (the... | |
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... it pleasing to our glorious Lord who did not refuse death even for Himself. Everything that touched Beatrice had to take upon itself a universal significance. Once, not long after, Dante was ill, and in his half-delirium the thought of death settled... 