Note 271 — SECOND PART. The Astronomy of Dante. (continued 2)
Reading edition
“I say that the starry heaven displays a multitude of stars to us, for as the Sages of Egypt have perceived, including the last star which appears to them in the south, they reckon one thousand and twenty-two starry bodies, of which I am now speaking.”
Conv. II. xv. 18-22. (Jackson).