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meco la vista, …19

with its continuation:

Or ti riman, lettor, sovra ’l tuo banco,

dietro pensando a ciò che si preliba,

s’esser vuoi lieto assai prima che stanco.

Messo t’ho innanzi: ornai per te ti ciba.

There is, of course, a great variety of style in the addresses. They include the levels of horrible sublimity, of gloomy humor (O tu che leggi, udirai nuovo ludo, Inf. XXII, 118), of invocation (Inf. XVI, 127ff.; Par. XXII, 106ff.), of friendly advice, and many other intonations. Note one passage, among the most charming, possibly involving a shade of playful humor (though I have my doubts; friendly irony is a very infrequent phenomenon in DanteDante). It occurs in Par. V, 100ff., when in the heaven of Mercury the souls gather around Beatrice and DanteDante, just as fishes in a quiet and limpid pond gather around something which may be food – exclaiming: ‘Here is someone who will increase our fervor.’ At this juncture DanteDante interrupts:

Pensa, lettor, se quel che qui s’inizia

non procedesse, come tu avresti