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Ulysses
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This is the first of four instances of "Ulysses" in the text , marking this passage as notable. The character Ulysses appears in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, Dante's Inferno, and as Odysseus in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The character's "appearance" in Joyce appears to be part of the latter's 3+1 pattern: or why the number "four" is significant in Joyce's book.

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maestro di color che sanno
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From Dante’s Inferno (4:130-131), meaning “master of those that know.” "Vidi il Maestro di color che sanno | Seder tra filosofica famiglia" - "I saw the master of those that know, | seated amid the philosophic family" Dante frequently acknowledges his debt to Aristotle whom he calls Maestro / Master and from whose writings and teachings Dante has based much of his works on. http://goo.gl/tGq4OB It is said that the play on the Italian use of ‘color’ and the English ‘colour’, is a connection that Joyce intended.

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maestro di color che sanno
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From Dante’s Inferno (4:131), meaning “master of those that know.”