Title: Il Paradiso
First published: October 1, 1970
Description: The Divine Comedy stands as one of the towering creations of world literature, and its climactic section, the Paradiso, is perhaps the most ambitious poetic attempt ever made to represent the merging of individual destiny with universal order. Having passed through Hell and Purgatory, Dante is led by his beloved Beatrice to the upper sphere of Paradise, wherein lie the sublime truths of Divine will and eternal salvation, to at last experience a rapturous vision of God.
Subjects: Poetry, Heaven, Paradise, Heaven in literature, Bibliography, Translations into English, Dictionaries, Paradise in literature, Rime, Italian literature, Pictorial works, Classic Literature, Fiction, Italian language materials, Poetry & poets, Poetry texts & anthologies, Italian Poetry, Italian, Literature: Classics, Ancient, Classical & Medieval, Continental European, Poetry / General, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Poetry (poetic works by one author), Poetry, collections, Heaven--poetry, Pq4315.4 .m3 1986, 18.29 Italian literature, La divina commedia (Dante), Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri), Paradiso (Dante Alighieri), Fiction, general, Textual Criticism, Medieval Manuscripts, Italian Manuscripts, Biblioteca medicea laurenziana, Romance literature, Classics, Purgatory, Bilingual books
Places: Italy, Florence
People: Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Gustave Doré (1832-1883), Piero Bargellini (1897-), Francis of Assisi, Saint (1182-1226)