The Divine Comedy: Paradiso

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Dante Alighieri’s poetic masterpiece is a visionary journey that takes readers through the torment of Hell until the Paradise. This third part of Dante’s Divine Comedy is a lot of things: a moving human drama, a magnificent protest against the ways in which men have thwarted the divine plan. An incredible path through the choices of every human being. It represents allegorically the final step of the soul's journey towards God. At this final level, Dante draws on medieval Christian theology and philosophy. Paradiso tells the journey of Dante through Paradise Purgatory, guided this time by his love of youth Beatrice. In the poem, The structure of Paradise is built on the geocentric system of Aristotle: at the center of the universe is the Earth, in the sublunar region, and around it nine concentric spheres, responsible for the movement of the planets. While Hell is a place on Earth, Paradise is an immaterial, ethereal world, divided into nine heavens: the first seven are named after the celestial bodies of the solar system (in the order Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars , Jupiter, Saturn), the last two are made up of the sphere of the fixed stars and the First mobile. Everything is contained in the Empire. Eternal bliss dwells in Paradise: souls contemplate the divinity of God and are full of grace.