Note 41 — Chapter IV · THE “DIVINA COMMEDIA” (continued 2)

Note the scansion of the previous line (37): Io che al divino da l’umano. There is no syneresis in ïo, no elision of the e in che; thus emphasising Dante’s personal experience, his wonder that it should be vouchsafed to him, and producing the slow movement, the solemn intonation of the line.