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    Paradiso (Italian: [paraˈdiːzo]; Italian for "Paradise" or "Heaven") is the third and final part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and the...
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    Dante's Paradiso, Dante visits God in the Empyrean. The word is used both as a noun and as an adjective, but empyreal is an alternate adjective form. The scientific...
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  • The Empyrean was the highest heaven in ancient cosmologies. Empyrean may also refer to: The Empyrean (Paradiso), the abode of God in Paradiso, the final...
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    crowning its summit; and the nine celestial bodies of Paradiso, followed by the Empyrean containing the very essence of God. Within each group of nine, seven...
    62 KB (6,526 words) - 15:59, 26 September 2024
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    and Paradiso (Heaven), it is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's...
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  • Il Paradiso is a massive (22 x 9 metres) oil painting on canvas that dominates the main hall of the Doge's Palace, which hosted the Great Council of Venice...
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    provided to the whole system by the Primum Mobile, itself set within the Empyrean, and the fastest moving of all the spheres. The total number of celestial...
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    Beatrice Portinari (category 13th-century people from the Republic of Florence)
    throughout Paradiso Beatrice is encouraging and patient towards Dante, taking joy in his gradual progress. When they reach the Empyrean, she leaves him...
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    and Paradiso (Paradise), and 100 cantos, with the Inferno having 34, Purgatorio having 33, and Paradiso having 33 cantos. Set at Easter 1300, the poem...
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    region, the empyrean heaven, which came to be identified as the dwelling place of God and all the elect. Medieval Christians identified the sphere of...
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    left thigh, holding the weight of his chin on the back of his right hand. The pose is one of deep thought and contemplation, and the statue is often used...
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    Oriflamme (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
    Artvelde in 1382. In Canto XXXI of Paradiso, Dante describes the Virgin Mary in the Empyrean as pacifica oriafiamma (Musa's translation, "oriflame of peace"):...
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    have the text pages for the last cantos, Paradiso, XXXI to XXXIII, but the drawings were never begun. The differing degrees of completion, and the canto...
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  • Dante Symphony (category The Devil in classical music)
    sphere-by-sphere towards the Empyrean; this is in marked contrast to the first movement, where key shifts were sudden and disjointed. As the Hosannas descend...
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    Bernard of Clairvaux (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Comedy, as he travels through the Empyrean. Dante's narrative use of Bernard suggests that the saint was famous at the time for profound mysticism, his...
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    Ugolino della Gherardesca (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Divine Comedy. In the 13th century, the states of Italy were beset by the strife of two parties, the Ghibellines and the Guelphs. While the conflict was local...
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    Heaven (redirect from The heavens)
    most famous descriptions of Heaven are given in Dante Alighieri's Paradiso (of the Divine Comedy) and John Milton's Paradise Lost. Baptism Beatification...
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    Cacciaguida (category People from the Metropolitan City of Florence)
    the Second Crusade and was there knighted by Emperor Conrad III before dying in the Holy Land. Dante meets Cacciaguida in Paradiso, precisely in the canti...
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  • Botticelli Inferno (category Works about the Renaissance)
    Loop. The film is part of the project Great Art Cinema and analyses one of the most mysterious works of Sandro Botticelli, the Map of Hell in the Divine...
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    Paolo Malatesta (category People from the Province of Rimini)
    also known as il Bello ('the Beautiful'), was the third son of Malatesta da Verucchio, Lord of Rimini. He is best known for the story of his affair with...
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