The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri : Paradiso Book

Paradiso is the third and final part of the work that Dante describes as having made him 'lean through these long years': and in this final part, that long leanness, long labor, and long hunger are at last appeased. Dante's Paradiso is the poem of love and light--what Osip Mandelstam called a 'kinetic ballet, ' with 'every possible kind of luminous figure and dance'--and of optics, angelology, polemics, homiletics, prophecies, perplexities, resolutions, and recognition of the limits of human understanding.