The poem identifies Piccarda through transformed radiance rather than ordinary earthly appearance, so recognition comes through what she says about her condition.
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Radiance
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "and i to her within your wonderful semblance there's something divine that glows transforming the appearance you once showed therefore by recognizing you as..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "and i to her within your wonderful semblance there's something divine that glows transforming the appearance you once showed therefore by recognizing you as..."
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"and i to her within your wonderful semblance there's something divine that glows transforming the appearance you once showed therefore by recognizing you as..."
"...into the west. Then I could feel my vision overcome by radiance greater than I'd sensed before and unaccounted things left me amazed at..."
"...shadow i know no man for whom is the warmest damned radiance divine by his fierce form his not if it was will or..."
"...light encircling me leaving me so enveloped by its veil of radiance that i could see no thing the love that calms this heaven..."
"drive heaven to us 97 o radiance of god through which i saw the noble triumph of the true realm give to me the..."
"...him you may penetrate, as far as that can be his radiance. But lest you now fall back when even as you move your..."
"...soul. And in that moment, I was struck by the divine radiance I was struck by the divine radiance of the unkown being. I..."
"In that moment, I was entranced by that divine radiance."
"I was turned away from the divine radiance, and I was transformed. I was turned away. what he saw and he searched through the..."
"...rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day so was the radiance around him this was the appearance of the likeness of the glory..."
"...here from the mortal world has to be ripened in our radiance the second fire offered me this comfort at which my eyes were..."
"...but a ray reflecting. It is a ray reflected from its radiance. My mind discerns this truth made plain by him who demonstrates to..."
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