"But know that in the soul
Are many lesser faculties, that serve
Reason as chief ; among these Fancy next
Her office holds ; of all external things,
Which the five watchful senses represent,
She forms imaginations, aery shapes,
Which Reason joining or disjoining frames
All what we affirm or what deny, and call
Our knowledge or opinion ; then retires
Into her private cell, when Nature rests."
"The greatest gift that in his largess God
Creating made, and unto his own goodness
Nearest conformed, and that which he doth
prize
Most highly, is the freedom of the will,
Wherewith the creatures of intelligence
Both all and only were and are endowed."
"Frederick was a prince of intrepid valour, consummate prudence, unmeasured
ambition, justice which hardened into severity, the ferocity of a barbarian
somewhat tempered with a high chivalrous gallantry ; above all, with a strength
of character which subjugated alike the great temporal and ecclesiastical princes of Germany ; and was prepared to assert the Imperial rights in Italy to the utmost. Of the constitutional rights of the Emperor, of his unlimited supremacy, his absolute independence of; his temporal superiority over, all other powers, even that of the Pope, Frederick proclaimed the loftiest notions. He was to the Empire what Hildebrand and Innocent were to the Popedom. His power was of God alone ; to assert that it was bestowed by the successor of St. Peter was a lie, and directly contrary to the doctrine of St. Peter."
Longfellow (1897), Purg. 18.100
Luke i. 39 : "And Mary arose in those days and went into the hill-country with haste."
Longfellow (1897), Purg. 18.101
Caesar on his way to subdue Ilerda, now Lerida, in Spain, besieged Marseilles, leaving there part of his army under Brutus to complete the work.
Longfellow (1897), Purg. 18.118
Nothing is known of this Abbot, not even his name. Finding him here, the commentators make bold to say that he was "slothful and deficient in good deeds." This is like some of the definitions in the Crusca, which, instead of the interpretation of a Dantesque word, give you back the passage in which it occurs.
Longfellow (1897), Purg. 18.119
This is the famous Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who, according to the German popular tradition, is still sitting in a cave in the Kipphaliser mountains, waiting for something to happen, while his beard has grown through the stone-table before him. In 1162 he burned and devastated Milan, Brescia, Piacenza, and Cremona. He was drowned in the Salef in Armenia, on his crusade in 1190, endeavouring to ford the river on horseback in his impatience to cross. His character is thus drawn by Milman, Lat. Christ., Book
VIII. Ch. 7, and sufficiently explains why Dante calls him "the good Barbarossa":--
Longfellow (1897), Purg. 18.121
Alberto della Scala, Lord of Verona. He made his natural son, whose qualifications for the office Dante here enumerates, and the commentators
repeat, Abbot of the Monastery of San Zeno.
Longfellow (1897), Purg. 18.132
See Inf VII. Note 115.
Longfellow (1897), Purg. 18.135
Numbers xxxii. II, 12 : " Surely none of the men that came out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob ; because they have not wholly followed me:
save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun ;
for they have wholly followed the Lord."
Longfellow (1897), Purg. 18.137
The Trojans who remained with Acestes in Sicily, instead of following Aeneas to Italy. Aeneid, V . : "They enroll the matrons for the city, and set on shore as many of the people as were willing, --souls that had no desire of high renown."
Longfellow (1897), Purg. 18.145
The end of the Second Day.