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* And the ens is that which the intellect conceives as first and best known, from which and in which it [the intellect] resolves all rational conceptions.

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«High phantasy lost power and here broke off»—Dante, Paradiso, 33: 142; English trans. Sayers and Reynolds.

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* Translator’s note: In Italian ,finger and toe are expressed by the same word: «dito.»