v. 128.  Chrysostom.] The eloquent patriarch of Constantinople.

v. 128.  Anselmo.] “Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, was born at Aosta, about 1034, and studied under Lanfrane at the monastery of Bec, in Normandy, where he afterwards devoted himself to a religious life, in his twenty-seventh year.  In three years he was made prior, and then abbot of that monastery! from whence he was taken, in 1093, to succeed to the archbishopric, vacant by the death of Lanfrane.  He enjoyed this dignity till his death, in 1109, though it was disturbed by many dissentions with William ii and Henry I respecting the immunities and investitures.  There is much depth and precisian in his theological works.”  Tiraboschi, Stor. della Lett.  Ital. t. iii.

1. iv. c. 2.  Ibid. c. v.  “It is an observation made by many modern writers, that the demonstration of the existence of God, taken from the idea of a Supreme Being, of which Des Cartes is thought to be the author, was so many ages back discovered and brought to light by Anselm.  Leibnitz himself makes the remark, vol. v.  Oper. p. 570.  Edit.  Genev. 1768.”

v. 129.  Donatus.] Aelius Donatus, the grammarian, in the fourth century, one of the preceptors of St. Jerome.

v. 130.  Raban.] “Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mentz, is deservedly placed at the head of the Latin writers of this age.”  Mosheim, v. ii. cent. ix. p. 2 c. 2. 14.

v. 131.  Joachim.] Abbot of Flora in Calabria; “whom the multitude revered as a person divinely inspired and equal to the most illustrious prophets of ancient times.”  Ibid. v. iii. cent. xiii. p. 2. c. 2. 33.

v. 134.  A peer.] St. Dominic.

CANTO XIII

v. 1.  Let him.] “Whoever would conceive the sight that now presented itself to me, must imagine to himself fifteen of the brightest stars in heaven, together with seven stars of Arcturus Major and two of Arcturus Minor, ranged in two circles, one within the other, each resembling the crown of Ariadne, and moving round m opposite directions.”

v. 21.  The Chiava.] See Hell, Canto XXIX. 45.

v. 29.  That luminary.] Thomas Aquinas.

v. 31.  One ear.] “Having solved one of thy questions, I proceed to answer the other.  Thou thinkest, then, that Adam and Christ were both endued with all the perfection of which the human nature is capable and therefore wonderest at what has been said concerning Solomon”

v. 48.  That.] “Things corruptible and incorruptible, are only emanations from the archetypal idea residing in the Divine mind.”

v. 52.  His brightness.] The Word:  the Son of God.

v. 53.  His love triune with them.] The Holy Ghost.

v. 55.  New existences.] Angels and human souls.

v. 57.  The lowest powers.] Irrational life and brute matter.

v. 62.  Their wax and that which moulds it.] Matter, and the virtue or energy that acts on it.