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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: end; for from the beginning to the end Dante has had the fixed determination to arrive at the end of all things; and to the Beatific Vision of that end May He guide us in patria, who deigned to bring this most fortunate author in via; and to Him be honour, glory, and perpetuity, for ever and ever, Amen, Amen, Amen ! In a colophon, Benvenuto writes that he finished his commentary on the last day of May, 1410. End Of The Paradisu. While this last sheet was passing through the press, there came the sad news of the assassination of King Humbert at Monza, a crime which has shocked all the civilized world, and especially those who, like myself, have lived in, and love, Italy. August, 1900. W. W. V. INDEX. A foglio a foglio nostro Volume, the Volume the Franciscan Or- der, the leaves the Friars, i, 417, 418 A quel, Tiberius Emperor, i, 196 A questo Sensibil I ' ha levato, see note, i, 341 Acone, parish of, i, 531 Acqua chc discende, /', allusion to the River Chiassi, i, 372, 373 Acquasparta, Cardinal of, i, 418, 419 Act, Pure, ii, 368, 369 Adam, ii, 285-301, how long he was in Limbo, ii, 289, 293; how long between his creation and Dante's visit to Paradise, ii, 293; the language he spoke, ii, 294; length of his sojourn in the Garden of Paradise, ii, 297, 298 Adige, the river, i, 296 Adriatic coast, ii, 152, 153 Agapetus, his visit to Justinian, i, 182 Agnello. the Lamb of God, ii, 216, 217 Agostino, Franciscan friar, i, 420 Aguglione, Messer Baldo d', i, 528, 529 Aiuola. the inhabited earth, ii, 187; thelittle threshingfloor of earth, ii. 3i4 Alba, the kingdom of, i, 186, 187 Alberichi, the family of, i, 536, 537 Albert of Hapsburg, ii, 88 ...
