However, the parallels to the biblical Garden of Eden can also be determined as quite the opposite of their equivalents in the Bible. ... Adding to his feelings of perception of some innate evil in Beatrice are Baglioni's urgings and allusions. ... In a weird twist on the Biblical garden of Eden, Giovanni is the unknowing Eve, offering Beatrice the elixir of life which, when as in the biblical account, as she partakes of it, "in that day" she will "surely die." ...

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