7. Dante having addressed a farewell prayer and thanksgiving to Beatrice, she beams a smile of last farewell from her far-distant throne, and then turns her face to God (91-93). 8. St. Bernard names himself, and directs Dante to look at the radiance of the Saints in the Rose, that he may be prepared to gaze upon the glory of the Blessed Virgin (97-102). 9. Dante sees the Virgin Mary among the adoring Angels (133-135). Canto XXXII. After pointing out Eve sitting at Mary's feet, and Rachel at the side of Beatrice, St. Bernard names Saul, Rebecca, Judith, and Ruth, the great-grandmother of the Psalmist (10-12). 2. The holy women divide the Saints of the Old Testament from those of the new. The seats of the former are full, but there are still some vacant places among the latter (20-27). 3. St. Bernard shows Dante St. John the Baptist, and beneath him the founders of religious Orders, and others below, corresponding in their tiers to the tiers on which are seated the Mothers of Israel (34-36). 4. The Rose is not only intersected by a perpendicular, but also by a horizontal line. Below the latter are seated the spirits of infants who died before they had attained the practice of Free Will (44-47). 5. If these babes enjoy bliss in different degrees, they do so because God so willed it (52-60). 6. Dante must gaze upon the radiant countenance of the Blessed Virgin, which alone can fit his eyesight to behold the glory of her Divine Son (85-87). 7. Dante sees the Archangel Gabriel poised on his wings in front of Mary (94-96). 8. St. Bernard points out Adam, St. Peter, St. John, Moses, Anna, and Lucia, and then signifies to Dante that he must employ the time remaining to him of his vision in the contemplation of the Triune God (139-144). Canto XXXIII. 1. St. Bernard makes his prayer to the Virgin on Dante's behalf, imploring grace of her for Dante to rise to the vision of the Divine Essence (22-27). 2. The Virgin Mary's eyes signify her appreciation of St. Bernard's prayer (40-42). 3. Dante, encouraged by St. Bernard, with purified eye-sight gazes on high into the Supreme Light, and sees things such as human power of speech is unable to recount (52-57). 4. Dante invokes the Supreme Light to enable him to record even a fragment of what he has seen (67-72). 5. He attempts to describe in what threefold shape he saw the Blessed Trinity (115-120). 6. He concludes the Poem by showing that God had taken possession of his every desire and his whole will, and was moving them with that same Love with which He directs and governs the Heavenly bodies (142-145). END OF THE ITINERARY. LIST OF AUTHORS AND OF EDITIONS QUOTED. ADAM DE SAINT-VICTOR. Liturgical Poetry, from the text of Gautier, ed. by D. S. Wrangham. London, 1881. 3 vols., sm. 8vo. 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