Note 356 — PART II THE DIVINE COMEDY COMPARED WITH OTHER MOSLEM LEGENDS ON THE AFTER-LIFE (continued 2)
Harold Sunderland translation
Landino, in discussing Par. XXXII on fol. 433 of his Commentary, arrives at the same number of twelve as that of the main degrees in Dante’s realm of glory: “Onde sono sei differentie e ciascuna ha provetti e parvuli, che fanno dodeci.” For the number of gradins, cf. Par. XXX, 113: “più di mille soglie.”