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who’ll free you from this enigmatic knot
yet bring no harm to grazing sheep or grain.
Take note and, as these words are borne from me, Inscribe them for a sign to those who live
The life that rapidly runs on to death.
(Pur. XXXIII, 56-54)
che solveranno questo enigma forte sanza danno di pecore o di biade.
Tu notañ e sì come da me son porte, così queste parole segna a’ vivi
del viver ch’è un correre a la morte.
(Pur. XXXIII, 56-54)
Hermeneutics.
Number symbolism, always abstract, shrouded in mystery 3⁄4 cult to the occult 3⁄4 always necessitating and aspiring to become more than trope and allegory: hermeneutic key beyond existential, cemented labyrinths. Seven hundred years of Dantean exegesis, of Hermes’ journeys between Olympus and Hades, endeavouring to tessellate, conjecture upon conjecture and grief within grief, the enigma of the Veltro and Un cinquecento diece e cinque identities, to form a constellated offering of ideas, cioe, sigla or cipher,8 to honour Dante’s modern precinct. Cioe supposes a particular person or number, a certain date or era while Sigla advocates the Gibelline, Guelf and autobiographical interpretations:
1) Gibellinism claims DXV to be an anagram of DUX,9 symbolic of an upcoming, yet unknown, secular emperor and prince of justice (ante eventum prophecy), or a personae gia venuto e ben noto e ben determinato, as Enrico VII10 o Cangrande Della Scala (post-eventum prophecy);
2) Guelfism understands DXV to be Christ in his Second Advent, or an anonymous future Messiah or a redeeming pontiff (Domini Xristi Vicarius);
3) Autobiographism purports DXV to be Dante.
8 Enciclopedia Dantesca. The Cinquecento Diece e Cinque. 10-14. Bosco, Umberto. Enciclopedia Dantesca. Italy: Istituto dell´Enciclopedia Italiana, 1975.
9 DXV as anagram of DUX literally refers to an emperor or prince sent by God to redeem a lost and corrupt humanity. This literal reading bears relationship to the Canto’s conceptualization. In this strict rhetorical sense, Lana considers DXV a “poetic mode to describe the title or office name of the one to execute God’s justice.” L’Ottimo follows Lana in his textual exegesis and opts for “an emperor” who is precisely “someone most just and most divine Prince who shall reform the state towards Christian faith. Enciclopedia Dantesca. The Cinquecento Diece e Cinque. 10-14
10 Hebrew Gematria derives Arrico (Arrigo, Henry VII) as follows: a=1; r=200; r=200; r=200; i=100; c=100; 0=4. MOORE, The DXV Prophecy, Studies, 3d ser., pp. 255-83 Noted by Wilson. Prophecies and Prophecy in Dante’s Commedia. Wilson, Robert. Prophecies and Prophecy in Dante´s Commedia. Italy: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2008.
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