Dante, Purgatorio
Conrad Malaspina's Coming Proof
The spirit who has watched Dante through the angelic encounter identifies himself as Conrad Malaspina, a descendant rather than the older man of that name. He says his love for his people is being refined. Dante praises the family's reputation although he has not visited its domains. Conrad answers that within seven returns of the sun, that favourable opinion will be fixed more firmly through experience than through other people's speech.
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The encounter
LiteraryThe spirit who has watched Dante through the angelic encounter identifies himself as Conrad Malaspina, a descendant rather than the older man of that name. He says his love for his people is being refined.
Further detail
LiteraryDante praises the family's reputation although he has not visited its domains. Conrad answers that within seven returns of the sun, that favourable opinion will be fixed more firmly through experience than through other people's speech.
Context & interpretation
This entry follows the supplied Thompson & Thomas edition of H. F. Cary’s translation. It describes Dante’s literary vision, distinguishing its assignments and reported claims from historical biography, other classical traditions and independently established accounts of an afterlife.
Original passages
Source 1
Purgatory and Paradise: The Vision of Dante
They call'd me Conrad Malaspina ; not That old one ; but from him I sprang. Tlie love I bore my people is now here refined."Open this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Purgatory and Paradise, Cary translation; active reader leaf 55
Passage read in the exact edition’s extracted canto text; whitespace-normalised anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Associated plates separately inspected.
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- IMJ-0119-E001
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- IMJ-0119-E001-P0055
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- 56
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Source 2
Purgatory and Paradise: The Vision of Dante
seven times the tired sun Revisits not the couch, which with four feet The forked Aries covers, ere that kind Opinion shall be nail'd into thyOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Purgatory and Paradise, Cary translation; active reader leaf 58
Passage read in the exact edition’s extracted canto text; whitespace-normalised anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Associated plates separately inspected.
- Edition
- IMJ-0119-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0119-E001-P0058
- Original scan leaf
- 59
- Recorded leaf number
- 59
- Current Reader position
- 55
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed
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