Down from my blessed seat
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venni qua giù del mio beato scanno, fidandomi del tuo parlare onesto, ch’ onora te e quei ch’ udito l’ hanno”.
I came down here from my blessed seat, trusting in your honest speech, which honors you and those who have heard it.”
She came down here from her blessed seat, trusting in Virgil's honest speech, which honors him and those who have heard it.
Beatrice ends her appeal with a last courtesy to Virgil: she came in confidence of his <i>parlare onesto</i>, his honorable eloquence. The very gift Mary's grace enlisted is now praised as trustworthy.
Her speech closes the nested revelation. Three ladies of Heaven have moved for Dante, and their errand has been placed, by love, in the hands of a poet. It is now Virgil's turn to translate all this into a rebuke that will lift the pilgrim to his feet.
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