ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses further the dualities in Dante's thought, particularly in relation to Virgil's meeting his limit at the top of the Terraces of Purgatory, and Dante's very carefully described re-meeting with Beatrice in the Earthly Paradise. It suggests that the two guides represent two different sorts of love which it is necessary in a fulfilled human life to encounter, and which had become problematic for Dante himself following the death of his mother in his early childhood.
