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November 12, 2010 Canto I starts of with a tercet about a sun - Beatrice - but then turns to a series of reflections - a miror, sunlit water, a reminiscence of Narcisus and the pol. Their interlocutor is Picarda, sister of Forese Donati, who we met in Purgatory , . Some families have representatives in al thre canticles - I don't remember if the Donati had anyone in Hel. If they don't, it might be because Forese and Picarda's brother wasn't dead yet - he forced her to leave a convent of the Por Clares and mary a political aly. Dante asks if those who dwel in this slowest sphere I.51 - being closest to the earth it is rotating most slowly if they want to be further up, to know more, and be more loved by God I.65-6 .
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