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In this way, DanteDante’s eagle would become here figurafigura Christi.5 This does not imply that other interpretations are necessarily false. The principle of ‘polysemy’, which DanteDante claims for his poem in the Letter of CangrandeCangrande della Scala,6 had already been established for the figurative exposition of the Bible by AugustineAugustinus, De Doctrina Christiana 3, 25 et seq., and the later commentators almost always give for difficult passages several typological interpretationsFiguraldeutung, sometimes alternative, more often cumulative,7 on condition that they do not contradict the faith (sententia …, quae fidei rectae non refragatur, Augustine, loc. cit., 3, 27). Nor is it altogether certain that everything which applies to the eagle applies also to Lucia; I am inclined to think that the prophetic dream has a wider implication than Lucia’s intervention. At any rate the imperial-political meaning which is certainly present at least in the dream,8 is not touched by our exposition; nor have we dealt with the problem why the eagle of Jove seizes its prey only from Mount Ida. But now we will add some hints on this subject. Mount Ida, where Ganymede was stolen, is the divine mountain of Troy, the origin dell’alma Roma e di suo impero (Inf. 2, 20); it stands here for the valley of the princes on the slopes of the mountain of the Purgatorio, a place of diletto and bel soggiorno (Purg. 7, 45; 48; 63; 73 et seq.), covered with flowers like the earthly Paradise or Elysium; but it is also vallis lacrimarum, still subject to timores nocturni,9 where among the princes dwells Rudolf von HabsburgRudolf v. Habsburg, che più siede alto e fa sembiante d’aver negletto ciò che far dovea (Purg. 7, 91–92); both Mount Ida and the valley of the princes10 obviously represent the Saturnian age, peaceful, imperial, golden, but lost. And only from that place does the eagle take his prey to carry it towards the unio mystica! Corresponding to this is DanteDante’s mystical sleep in the earthly Paradise which immediately precedes the vision of the nova Beatrice (Purg. 32, 64 et seq.) explicitly connected with the vision in LukeLukas (Evangelist) 9, 28–36;11 corresponding to this above all is Jacob’s ladder which also signifies contemplation leading to the highest vision,12 and which rises from the heaven of Saturn, immediately after the following description: