It is not that she has changed in any way what has changed is his ability to comprehend the deeper truths available from her. Or, as Benvenuto da Imola puts it, “idest que primo amoravit cor meum carnaliter, deinde mentaliter” ). ![]() She will illumine his intellect as she first stirred all his soul. This evident recollection of the first significant events recorded in the second chapter of the Vita nuova, Beatrice's appearance to the nearly nine-year-old Dante and his immediate innamoramento, sets the stage for the entrance of his newly reconstituted instructor and guide (“Bëatrice, dolce guida e cara!” of Par. Francis's Laudes creaturarum, “Sister Moon” should be her “brother,” the Sun). It is not surprising, given its Christian valence, that Dante should have used the Sun as metaphoric equivalent for Beatrice (it is a nice touch that the professor in the matter pertaining to, in the phrasing of St.
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