Soul unto Its Star Returns

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As Timaeus speaks he thinks. He says the soul unto its star returns.

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Artist

Name:
Dargent, Yan'
Dates:
1824-1899
Country:
France

Illustration

Subject:
Narratives
Technique:
Wood Engraving
Engraver:
Hildibrand, Henri Théophile
Format:
Landscape (wider)
Source:
Robarts Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:
La divine comédie
Author:
Alighieri, Dante
Publisher:
Paris: Garnier Frères, 1870
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Description:

A woman dressed in a transparent veil floats in a starry sky roamed by other flying figures.
This picture illustrates the following passage:

He says the soul unto its star returns,
Believing it to have been severed thence
Whenever nature gave it as a form.
(Paradiso, Canto IV. Translation: Henry W. Longfellow.)

The caption reads in the original French: Timée sent comme il parle. Il dit que chaque âme retourne à son étoile.

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