Round 7: Tossup 21

This character’s speech is likened to the point of a sharp sword when she reproves a man who had been “turned aside” by “mere appearances” before telling him to “lift up [his] beard.” Later, this character explains that her companion would be “like Semele when she was turned to ashes” if she smiled. In her last appearance, this character looks down, then turns “back to the eternal fountain” in her seat next to Rachel. This character berates the narrator for (*) straying from virtue and tells him to bathe in the river Eunoe after entering on a griffin-drawn chariot. This character, who yields her role to Bernard of Clairvaux (10[1])as she takes her place in a white rose, becomes more and more beautiful as she ascends through the nine celestial spheres. For 10 points, the poet’s guide in Paradiso is what beloved of Dante? ■END■ (10[1])

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