Commentary Purg XXX 97

Shoaf (Shoa.1989.1) examines Dante's Christianizing reinterpretation of the second Georgic as part of his revision of Virgilian values for the Commedia, taking off from the line (II.484) 'frigidus obstiterit circum praecordia sanguis' ([But if] the chill blood about my heart bar [me from reaching those realms of nature]) that he sees reflected in this verse of Dante's.