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Galiet & Galiet
Commedia as belonging, as dwelling in and as mirror of prophecies, Christian theology and Gospel sermon, with its Inferno of exile, its Purgatorio of pilgrimage, its Paradiso of belongingness:
Within in its depths, this light, I saw contained, bound up and gathered in a single book,
the leaves that scatter through the universe.
(Par. 33, 87)
Only then will Dante’s life depart, as he, like the Hototogisu, dies in the fulminant singing of his song.
Only then will Dante see how human folly and all alienated things, in veering towards their innocent origins, long to return, as falcon to its falconer, as the Hototogisu to his Maker, as Dante to his lady
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