Note 177 — FICTION—FAIR AND FOUL.
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.)