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Eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Vol. 1 (of 3)

Note 6 — CABINET CYCLOPÆDIA.

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According to his own intimation in the Purgatorio, canto XXXII. ver. 2., where he speaks of his "eyes" being eager to relieve themselves of their "ten years' thirst," on her spiritual appearance to him;—the date of the visions being A. D. 1300, and the descent into the lower regions represented as having been made on Good Friday, 1266 years after the death of Christ.

—Inferno, canto XXI.

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