[1.]Classical:The goddess of air -- Landino's Virgil -- [2.]Italian:Falerina's garden -- Tasso's enchanted wood -- [3.]English:Spenser's fairyland -- The language of Milton's heaven -- Epilogue:The disappearance of Homer and the end of Homeric allegory -Vico and Wolf -- Appendix:Landino's Camaldulensian dialogues.