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TEXTUAL VARIANTS
We list here, with brief comments, passages where we have adopted readings
rejected by Petrocchi.
3.31. We depart from the Petrocchi reading, error, in favor oforror, even though
orror may be a!ectiofacilior; error sacrifices the powerful sensory vividness of the
bristling hair.
8.111 Petrocchi's "modal conjunction" (che, deriving, like chi, from Latin quid,
and not orthographically distinguished in Dante's day) seems a needless sophis-
tication here, though we adopt it in 8.64 and 30.132.
11.28. The context seems clearly to imply the definite article. The traditional
reading here is "de' violenti" [of the violent]; as Petrocchi himself established,
Dante's practice is best interpreted in such cases as d'i; Petrocchi's di seems arbitary
here.
14.48. We adopt the traditional reading here (maturi [ripen]); Petrocchi's marturi
[inflict pain] seems clearly a lectiofacilior and sacrifices both a striking metaphor
and a very characteristic sarcasm.
16.102. We accept the traditional dovria.., esser [there should be], as opposed
to Petrocchii's dovea.., esser [there was to have been], which some of the early
commentators explained by supposing that the Conti Guidi had once planned
to build a castle at San Benedetto delle Alpi; but mille [a thousand], which they
took to mean "a thousand people," is clearly the correlative of una scesa [one
descent], meaning that there is a single cataract when the river is in spate, but a
thousand stages of descent when it is not.
19.45. The context clearly requires che sl piangeva [who was weeping so]--line
32 has identified Nicholas as "wriggling more" than the others--rather than
Petrocchi's che si piangeva [who was weeping].
24.69. Like other modem editors, we adopt Pietro di Dante's emendation ad
ire for the widely attested ad ira, which seems the lectiofacilior; however, the mean-
ing he asserts, "to go," seems redundant with mosso [moved], which if comple-
mented would seem to require an expression of ethos. We incline to the view

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. Volume: 1. Contributors: Robert M. Durling - editor, Dante Alighieri - author, Robert M. Durling - transltr, Robert Turner - illustrator. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1996. Page Number: 585.
    
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