Folco talks with Dante in the heavenly sphere of Venus. Folco was a 12th-century poet who later became a bishop; he was said to have been an amorous figure when young. Folco explains to Dante that souls in Heaven do not brood over their earthly sins, instead praising God’s providential re-ordering and transformation of those characteristics that occasioned sin on earth.
Folco of Marseilles Quotes in Paradiso
The Paradiso quotes below are all either spoken by Folco of Marseilles or refer to Folco of Marseilles. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Canto 9
Quotes
Yet here we don’t repent such things. We smile,
not, though, at sin – we don’t think back to that –
but at that Might that governs and provides.
In wonder, we here prize the art to which
His power brings beauty, and discern the good
through which the world above turns all below.
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Folco of Marseilles Quotes in Paradiso
The Paradiso quotes below are all either spoken by Folco of Marseilles or refer to Folco of Marseilles. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Canto 9
Quotes
Yet here we don’t repent such things. We smile,
not, though, at sin – we don’t think back to that –
but at that Might that governs and provides.
In wonder, we here prize the art to which
His power brings beauty, and discern the good
through which the world above turns all below.
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