READINGS ON THE PARADISO OF DANTE READINGS ON THE PARADISO· OF DANTE CHIEFLY RASED ON THE COMMENTARY OF BENVENUTO DA IMOLA BY THE HON8LE. WILLIAM W ARREN VERNON M.A. (Aaademico Corrispondente della Crusca, Cavaliere diS. llfauri::;ioe Laz::;aro in ltaly, and Knigltt o/ tlte Royal Order o/ St. Ola/ in Norway) 't!Ulitabn 3-ntrotmctton nv THE BISHOP OF RIPON IN TWO VOLU.MES VOL. li 1onbon MACMILLAN AND CO. LIMITED .J NE\V YORK: THE 1.,fAC~flLLAN coitPANY ,:,· Tlte R,'gltl o/ Tronslation ami Reprodttclio11 ls Reu,-11ed, CONTENTS OF VOL. II. PAGE TEXT, TRANSLATION, AND COMMENTARY: CANTOS XVII TO XXXIII 1-493 INDEX. 494-523 ILLUSTRATION. GENERAL VIEW OF PARADISE ACCORDING TO DANTE, coloured p!ate (see a/so voi. I) opposi/e p. 1 , I '1 , ~ \ ORVOEN PRESS: J. OAVV ANO SONS, 137, LONG ACRR, LONDON1 W,C, Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2007 with funding from Microsoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/readingsonparadi02verniala THE. "THREE HIE IL lfia;o,,o r tJ, . I.r ~SJu.7 Far;·• ,",8 e'~,·_., ,.._ 8t.1,• . a,r!J~;•..✓ ,.0- ",,~,·~"1. .,.,..P J;,Juu,,S;•°r< 41;·:~0 - s~••·s,,. '"• ~'-e, tJi,.·A~"•· '> •t,-,~ "01' lf ~ •·u,.,,~ '-. n .., •. ,..;.,~ {lo .,.,:, t.,~-, ,... ,t,,t ,'".oi : Q ~-""à,1,;- ·~--4?~',.. "'(,· ".t. ~':t G<,,· ~"•t.,,._.,. "1.,o ··.,So_. '>e o.,6-t.c, •• ~"". ·.,,~ ~C',s ·-.. '•.., ~. .✓.. /,, e..,, "-?,. ~(' '°-S(' ·o'>.,',-,, c..~ 9q't-.\ ....../. ... ",;;~ .. ~1)e _, ...... oc. $~ I i .,.. I i. ,.. O• c..:. o: I '!'.\g (nIl, • ~- 3 ;F: o o ii'l •-, C0O ;, GENERAL VIEW OF PARADISE ACCORDING TO DANTE. Adapted from theTavole Dantesche of the Duke of Sermoneta. ERRATA. Vol. II, p. 189, 1. 2: /or "Stella Heaven," read "Stellar Heaven." Vol. II, p. 475, li. 8, 9: /or "beseeches thee for the grace of so much power that he may," etc., read "beseeches thee, by thy grace, for such a sufficiency of power that he may," etc.