Commentary Par XX 1-6

Aversano (Aver.2000.2), pp. 88-89, while making a quite different point, helps one to observe a curious phenomenon: the poet has not mentioned the Sun by its name since the protagonist first entered it ([Par X 41] and [Par X 48]).  Now he uses paraphrase or reference (colui [verse 1], lui [verse 4], una [stella] [verse 6]) to refer to the Sun (while, Aversano might have gone on to point out, he does use the letters that spell 'sun,' sol, as the adverb 'only' in verse 4 [and again in verse 15]).  On this last point see Camerino (Came.1995.1), p. 47.