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Guido Guinicelli. Amaut Daniel.

CANTo XXVII: Seventh Ledge: the Lustful. Passage through the Flames. Stairway in the rock. Night upon the stairs. Dream of Dante. Morning. Ascent to the Earthly Paradise. Last words of Virgil.

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CANTo XXVIII: The Earthly Paradise. The Forest. A Lady gathering flowers on the bank of a little stream. Discourse with her concerning the nature of the place.

CANTo XXIX: The Earthly Paradise. Mystic Procession or Triumph of the Church.

CANTo XXX: The Earthly Paradise. Beatrice appears. Departure of Virgil. Reproof of Dante by Beatrice.

CANTo XXXI: The Earthly Paradise. Reproachful discourse of Beatrice, and confession of Dante. Passage of Lethe. Appeal of the Virtues to Beatrice. Her Unveiling.

CANTO XXXII: The Earthly Paradise. Return of the Triumphal procession. The Chariot bound to the Mystic Tree. Sleep of Dante.

His waking to find the Triumph departed. Transformation of the Chariot. The Harlot and the Giant.

CANTo XXXIII: The Earthly Paradise. Prophecy of Beatrice concerning one who shall restore the Empire. Her discourse with Dante. The river Eunoe. Dante drinks of it, and is fit to ascend to Heaven.

PARADISE

CANTO 1: Proem. Invocation. Beatrice, and Dante transhumanized, ascend through the Sphere of Fire toward the Moon. Beatrice explains the cause of their ascent.

CANTo II: Proem. Ascent to the Moon. The cause of Spots on the Moon. Influence of the Heavens.

CANTo III: The Heaven of the Moon. Spirits whose vows had been broken. Piccarda Donati. The Empress Constance.

CANTo IV: Doubts of Dante, respecting the justice of Heaven and the abode of the blessed, solved by Beatrice. Question of Dante as to the possibility of reparation for broken vows.

CANTo V: The sanctity of vows, and the seriousness with which they are to be made or changed. Ascent to the Heaven of Mercury. The shade of Justinian.

CANTo VI: Justinian tells of his own life. The story of the Roman Eagle. Spirits in the planet Mercury. Romeo.

CANTo VII: Discourse of Beatrice. The Fall of Man. The scheme of his Redemption.

CANTO VIII: Ascent to the Heaven of Venus. Spirits of Lovers.

Charles Martel. His discourse on the order and the varieties in mortal things.

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CANTo IX: The planet Venus. Conversation of Dante with Cunizza da Romano. With Folco of Marseilles. Rahab. Avarice of the Papal Court.

CANTo X: Ascent to the Sun. Spirits of the wise, and the learned in theology. St. Thomas Aquinas. He names to Dante those who surround him.

CANTo XI: The Vanity of worldly desires. St. Thomas Aquinas undertakes to solve two doubts perplexing Dante. He narrates the life of St. Francis of Assisi.

CANTo XII: Second circle of the spirits of wise religious men, doctors of the Church and teachers. St. Bonaventura narrates the life of St. Dominic, and tells the names of those who form the circle with him.

CANTO XIII: St. Thomas Aquinas speaks again, and explains the relation of the wisdom of Solomon to that of Adam and of Christ, and declares the vanity of human judgment.

CANTo XIV: At the prayer of Beatrice, Solomon tells of the glorified body of the blessed after the Last Judgment. Ascent to the Heaven of Mars. Spirits of the Soldiery of Christ in the form of a Cross with the figure of Christ thereon. Hymn of the Spirits.

CANTo XV: Dante is welcomed by his ancestor, Cacciaguida.

Cacciaguida tells of his family, and of the simple life of Florence in the old days.

CANTO XVI: The boast of blood. Cacciaguida continues his discourse concerning the old and the new Florence.

CANTO XVII: Dante questions Cacciaguida as to his fortunes.

Cacciaguida replies, foretelling the exile of Dante, and the renown of his Poem.

CANTo XVIII: The Spirits in the Cross of Mars. Ascent to the Heaven of Jupiter. Words shaped in light upon the planet by the Spirits. Denunciation of the avarice of the Popes.

CANTo XIX: The voice of the Eagle. It speaks of the mysteries of Divine justice; of the necessity of Faith for salvation; of the sins of certain kings.

CANTo XX: The song of the Just.