Paradiso (The Divine Comedy series Book 3) by Dante

Author:Dante
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780307805959
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2012-07-17T16:00:00+00:00

87. The metaphorical vineyard (fairly obviously the Church) turns gray with rot if its keeper (obviously the pope) does not take good care of it. This reference to Boniface VIII is thinly veiled. [return to English / Italian]

88–96. Carroll (comm. to vv. 46–105) paraphrases this elegant pastiche of a canon lawyer’s style as follows: “[Dominic] asked from the Head of the Church none of the evil privileges so eagerly sought for by others: to distribute only a third or a half of moneys left for charitable purposes, retaining the rest; to receive the first vacant benefice; or to use for himself the tithes which belong to God’s poor. His one request was for leave to fight against an erring world for the seed of the Faith.” [return to English / Italian]

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