Furnishes Dante many figures of speech, mostly conventional. A Florentine race. The priest and his palfrey. Corso Donati's death. How Gianni Schicchi made shift to get Monna Tonina 147-155 In heraldry. Belted swine. The Casentino. How pride and anger Tragedy and he-goat's bad smell. Butting. Nimbleness. A goat- 187-194 In northern and southern literature. The whale and the camping sailors. Significance of the whale to Dante In the Zodiac. Fish-ponds in the Middle Ages. The scaly bream. Did Pope Martin die of eating too many of Bolsena's eels and Celestial Eagle. Solomon's dove. Theology. St. Peter's meeting with St. James. Doves frightened from their feeding. Francesca and Paolo 272-279 Souls of the lustful borne on like starlings |