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LUCIFER2. Lucifer, later identified with Satan, was originally called "son of the morning," Isaiah 14:12. Dante places Lucifer as a three-headed monster in the very pit of hell, frozen from mid-breast firm in the ice, Inf XXXIV.23-60.

The Monk gives a brief stanza on the tragedy of Lucifer, now Sathanas, MkT 1999-2006. The Parson preaches that the sale of sacred things is the most horrible sin after pride, the sin of Lucifer, ParsT 785-790. [Satan]

Lucifer appears in medial position, MkT 1999, and in an apostrophe, MkT 2004.


Dante, Divine Comedy, ed. and trans. C.S. Singleton, I, 1: 362-365; J.B. Russell, Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.

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