Note 66 — FICTION, FAIR AND FOUL.[62]
Reading edition
"Che nella mente mia ragiona." Love—you observe, the highest Reasonableness, instead of French ivresse, or even Shakespearian "mere folly"; and Beatrice as the Goddess of Wisdom in this third song of the Convito, to be compared with the Revolutionary Goddess of Reason; remembering of the whole poem chiefly the line:—
"Costei penso chi che mosso l'universo."
(See Lyell's "Canzoniere," p. 104.)