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The main point about Dante is this: what he says is
never more, is never less, than his initial and total
response to the object before him. (Art for him is the
form that truth takes on when it is fully perceived.) . . .
Dante never indulges in fancy; he never adorns, or
magnifies. As he thinks and sees (whether with his outer,
or his inner eye), so he writes. . . . His sensory
apprehension is so sure, and his intellectual grasp so
direct that he never doubts that he is at the very centre
of perception. This is probably the secret of Dante’s
celebrated conciseness. (35)
With Dante, as with Aquinas, the literal, the surface is a
profound unity, and Milano adds (p. xxxvii):
We live in an age where the split between mind,