Artwork

Paradiso, Canto 30 – At the Empyrean

“with act and voice of guide whose task is done, resumed: ‘We’ve left the largest body, and move now in the heaven composed of light alone”

Paradiso, Canto 29 – The Creation of Angels

“but now, as poet, I must needs give o’er pursuit that every artist knows is vain, when, having done his best, he can do no more” Check out the tin...

Paradiso, Canto 28 – The March Towards God

“thus by enlightening grace and by their own desert their vision was uplifted so, that will in them is full and steadfast grown”

Paradiso, Canto 27 – Gloria Patri

“And thou, son, who to Earth must be restor’d by reason of thy mortal burden, hide nought that I hide not; tell it, word for word”

Paradiso, Canto 26 – Meeting of the Forces of L...

“‘Look, look: behold the baron who on earth draws pilgrims to Galicia’ - thus, elate, my lady made me know that spirit’s worth”

Paradiso, Canto 25 – Saint James and Hope

“and those joyful spirits straightaway made themselves spheres on fixed poles, thereby flashing, revolved, with a comet’s fiery ray”