XXIV/3 Dante alludes to the Phoenix in the mood of ancient knowledge and I have thus tried to make a page of some imagined manuscript in which such arcana might have been found. The phoenix has a special relevance to pages of this book in particular since the whole production was revived from its own ashes after the first year's work on the original had been destroyed in a fire at Editions Alecto in 1979. The range of Dante's sources, ancient and modern, oriental and occidental is present in the stylistic and calligraphic mixture of this page with its hieroglyphs, pseudo-oriental script, its Greek illuminated capital, its sequence of Phoenix pictures reminiscent of alchemical treatises, and its modern typographic fragment. The lidded box implies the union of ancient and Hermetic imagery with Christian thought, a feat of unification on Dante's part that outstrips Aquinas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.