Dante's Divine Comedy

The Mystical Ladder

“Coloured like gold, translucent, glittering, I saw a stairway reaching up so high, that to my sight it was past following”

The Mystical Ladder

“Coloured like gold, translucent, glittering, I saw a stairway reaching up so high, that to my sight it was past following”

The Sixth Heaven of Jupiter

“When he who floods the whole, wide world with light so far beneath our hemisphere is gone, that day on every side melts into night, the sky, lit up before...

The Sixth Heaven of Jupiter

“When he who floods the whole, wide world with light so far beneath our hemisphere is gone, that day on every side melts into night, the sky, lit up before...

The Language of Birds

“Confronting me appeared with wings outspread the fair image which, revelling in their sweet fruition, the souls thus interwoven made”

The Language of Birds

“Confronting me appeared with wings outspread the fair image which, revelling in their sweet fruition, the souls thus interwoven made”

The Splendor of Beatrice

“That blessed mirror now enjoyed alone his word within himself, and I too fed, tempering the sweet with bitter, on my own”

The Splendor of Beatrice

“That blessed mirror now enjoyed alone his word within himself, and I too fed, tempering the sweet with bitter, on my own”

The Divine Presence

“From thence, e’en there stealeth on the ears sweet harmony from organ, comes to me a vision of thy life in future years”

The Divine Presence

“From thence, e’en there stealeth on the ears sweet harmony from organ, comes to me a vision of thy life in future years”

Ghost of Ancestors

“With these words: ‘From the say when Hail was said’”

Ghost of Ancestors

“With these words: ‘From the say when Hail was said’”