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Canto XXX portrays the seamless transition between Virgil's departure and Beatrice's arrival, and also Dante's extreme display of emotion in his penitence. Virgil finally exiting Dante's pilgrimage signifies the departure from the pursuit of non-Christian philosophy and humanities, moving onto the "primal love", the love of God.

The threefold repetition of Virgil's name in Canto XXX, 49-51: "But Virgil had deprived us of himself,

Virgil, the gentlest father, Virgil, he

to whom I gave my self for my salvation;

and even all our ancient mother lost

was not enough to keep my cheeks, though washed

with dew, from darkening again with tears." In which Dante's farewell to Virgil is derived from Virgil's own Georgics (V, 525-527), "The bare voice and death-cold tongue, with fleeting breath,

called Eurydice - ah, hapless Eurydice! "Eurydice" the

banks re-echoed, all adown the stream." ""