Therefore let him who names this site not sayĪscesi, which would be to say too little,īut Orient, if he would name it rightly. This sun when it is climbing from the Ganges. He is careful to say that these all actually live in bliss with God in the Empyrean:īetween Topino's stream and that which flowsĭown from the hill the blessed Ubaldo chose,įrom a high peak there hangs a fertile slope įrom there Perugia feels both heat and coldįrom this hillside, where it abates its rise, As with his Purgatory, the structure of Dante's Heaven is therefore of the form 9+1=10, with one of the ten regions different in nature from the other nine.ĭuring the course of his journey, Dante meets and converses with several blessed souls. The nine spheres are concentric, as in the standard medieval geocentric model of cosmology, which was derived from Ptolemy. Dante's journey through Paradise takes approximately twenty-four hours, which indicates that the entire journey of the Divine Comedy has taken one week, Thursday evening ( Inferno I and II) to Thursday evening.Īfter ascending through the sphere of fire believed to exist in the earth's upper atmosphere (Canto I), Beatrice guides Dante through the nine celestial spheres of Heaven, to the Empyrean, which is the abode of God. the Garden of Eden), at noon on Wednesday, March 30 (or April 13), 1300, following Easter Sunday. The Paradiso begins at the top of Mount Purgatory, called the Earthly Paradise (i.e. The Paradiso assumes the medieval view of the Universe, with the Earth surrounded by concentric spheres containing planets and stars.
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