Addio Virgilio: Terrestrial Paradise, Purgatorio 28-30   Dante poignantly bids farewell to his guide, mentor, and friend by having him fade away from view, not only physically but textually as well. The final two images of Virgil, like snapshots in a photo album, portray him as smiling in the first case (28.145-7) and showing amazement in the second (29.55-7). When Dante next turns to see Virgil, he is no longer there, much to Dante's understandable dismay (30.43-54). While we don't actually see Virgil leave the stage, his disappearance from the action of the poem is marked, appropriately enough, by a loving tribute to the Roman poet based on his own verses: Dante first cites Virgil's original Latin ("manibus date lilia plenis" [give lilies with full hands]: Aen. 6.883; Purg. 30.21); he then translates Virgil's verse from Latin to Italian ("agnosco veteris vestigia flammae" / "conosco i segni de l'antica fiamma" [I recognize the signs of the old flame]: Aen. 4.23; Purg. 30.48); finally, Dante echoes Virgil's Georgics 4.525-7, which records Orpheus' three-fold repetition of Eurydice's name (as she disappears from view), with his own cry of "Virgilio - Virgilio - Virgilio" upon realizing the loss of his beloved guide (Purg. 30.49-51).