Commentary Par I 70-72

For Dante 'transhumanization' is the passing beyond normal human limits by entering into a state at least approaching that enjoyed by divinity.      

Chiarenza (Chia.1972.1), p. 83, holds this passage up to Hugh of St. Cher's comparison of the difficulty of conveying one's 'intellectual vision' to someone else to the difficulty of describing the taste of wine to one who had never experienced it.

See Migliorini-Fissi (Migl.1982.1), pp. 41-44, for St. Bernard's relevant concept of deificatio.