Preferred Citation: Durling, Robert M., and Ronald L. Martinez Time and the Crystal: Studies in Dante's Rime petrose. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1990 1990. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft8s200961/


 

E

Earth (element), 37 –38, 40 –41, 82 , 117 , 218

Earth (planet), 8 , 10 , 72 –73, 75 , 77 , 102 , 217 –218, 249

Easter, date of, 354 , 435

Ecliptic, 8 , 10 , 16 , 75 , 76 , 77 , 233 –236, 238 , 363 , 374 , 380 , 383 , 433 –434

Eden, Garden of, 215 , 354 , 364 , 421 –422

Edgerton, Samuel, 412

Egypt, 241

Elements:

and alphabet, 336 ;

combined in the sublunar, 37 , 98 , 167 , 336 ;

and the senses, 98 ;

transformations of, 37 , 140 –142, 159 , 163

Elijah, 266

Eliseo, 266

Elishah, 266

Empyrean, 35 –36, 228 , 252 , 276 , 436

Enclosure:

cosmic, 75 , 142 , 157 –158, 162 , 163 , 174 ;

meter as, 424 ;

and stanzaform, 26 –30, 75 , 130 , 132 , 141 –143, 148 –149, 155 , 372

Epicurus, 409

Epiphanius of Constantinople, 338

Equator, 8 , 10 , 91 , 233 , 238 , 352 , 375

Equinox, 10 , 91 , 124 , 233 , 238 ;

autumnal, 207 ;

vernal, 205 , 206 –208, 215 , 246 , 249 , 254 –255, 430 , 442

Equinoxes, 352 ;

precession of, 339 , 432 , 437 , 442

Eriugena, Johannes Scottus, 54 , 340 –341;

as translator, 340 –341, 344 –345;

Annotationes in Marcianum,360 ;

De divisione naturae,340 , 344 –348, 370


475

Eschatology, in the petrose,126 –129, 135 , 161 –162

Eteocles and Polynices, 88

Etymology, figure, 226 –227, 394 –395, 438

Evans, Joan, 338 , 375 , 376 , 397

Eve, 96 , 361 , 362

Everard the German, 380

Exodus, Book of, 397

Eye:

centric ray of, 412 ;

and cosmos, 229 , 231 , 389 –390;

poem as, 153 –155, 231 .

See also Crystal; Microcosm

Eyes:

Beatrice's, 57 , 63 –64, 187 , 198 , 232 , 411 –412;

Donna pietra 's, 47 –48, 129 –130, 142 –143, 153 , 187 –190, 193 , 196 ;

the lover's, 47 –48, 153 , 155 , 160 , 171 , 193


 

Preferred Citation: Durling, Robert M., and Ronald L. Martinez Time and the Crystal: Studies in Dante's Rime petrose. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1990 1990. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft8s200961/