[201] Not only in the formally “didactic passages” does he act—in Croce’s words, “like a master who knows, and is bent on making it clear to the pupil.” _Op. cit._, p. 121. [202] _Purg._ i. 71. [203] _Purg._ v. 61 _sqq._ [204] _Purg._ xxvii. 142. [205] _Par._ xxxi. 85. [206] _Purg._ xxvi. 13. [207] _Purg._ xxiii. 73 _sqq._ [208] _Purg._ xxi. 61 _sqq._ [209] Mme. Montessori’s earlier utterances were justly criticised for a too thoroughgoing individualism that claimed to have rung the death-knell of the “class system.” The individualist attitude and the collective have each a place in the New Teaching, though the former tends to be emphasised most. The characteristic Montessorian expression of the social instinct is the “Silence Game.” See _The New Teaching_, pp. 15, 16, 22. [210] _Op. cit._, p. 234. [211] _Purg._ x. 31 _sqq._ [212] _Purg._ xii. 16 _sqq._ [213] Very little transpires as to the office and function of those Angels except in the matter of removal of the P’s from the forehead of penitents as they mount up to the successive Terraces. In _Purg._ xvi. 142-5, there is a glimpse of their usefulness, where Marco Lombardo is reminded of the boundary of his “beat” by the nearness of the Angel of the Anger-Terrace. “L’Angelo è i’vi!” [214] _Purg._ ii. 30. [215] _Purg._ xvi. 76-78. For this reference and several others the writer is indebted to an illuminating article on “La Pedagogia in Dante Alighieri,” by Sac. Dott. Fernando Cento in _Il VIº Centenario Dantesco_, March, 1916. [216] _Purg._ iv. 88-95. [217] _Purg._ xii. 110; xv. 38; xvii. 68 etc. [218] _Inf._ xxx. 136 _sqq._ [219] _Par._ xxxiii. 58 _sqq._ [220] _Purg._ xviii. 141. [221] _Purg._ xix. 1 _sqq._ [222] _Purg._ xix. 28. [223] _Purg._ xxvii. 88 _sqq._ [224] As in the case last quoted, or e.g. in _Purg._ xvii. 40 _sqq._: _Come si frange il sonno, etc._, where the sleep is broken by the sudden striking of a light upon the sleeper’s eyes. [225] _Purg._ xxvii. 112. [226] _Inf._ xxvi. 7. [227] See pp. 95 _sqq._ [228] p. 120 _sq._ [229] p. 121. He goes on: “Perciò i concetti esposti vi si rivestono d’immagini corpulenti e fulgidissimi.” [230] Croce, p. 135. [231] _Par._ i. 100. [232] Strictly, from _Inf._ i. 112 to _Purg._ xxvii. 142; Virgil disappears, _Purg._ xxx. 49. [233] _Purg._ xxi. 33. [234] _Purg._ xxi. 103; _cf._ i. 125; xix. 85 _sqq._, etc. [235] _Gerus. Lib._ xvii. 63. [236] _Purg._ xvi. 77. [237] _Inf._ ii. 1-5. [238] _Inf._ i. 77-78; _Purg._ xxvii. 35-36. [239] _Op. cit._, p. 37. [240] _Inf._ xvii. 79 _sqq._ [241] _Purg._ xxvii. 22 _sqq._ [242] Homer, _Od._ xx. 18. Dante, _Inf._ xxvi. 56 _sqq._; _Purg._ xix. 22; _Par._ xxvii. 83. [243] _Purg._ iv. 89 _sqq._ [244] _Inf._ xi. 10-66; xii. init. [245] _Purg._ xvii. 88-139.