What Was in the Rose in the Ninth Circle? Unveiling Dante’s Celestial Vision
Introduction Think about a rose, so huge it encompasses the whole lot of paradise, its luminous petals shaped by the numerous faces of the blessed. That is the Empyrean, the very best heaven in Dante Alighieri’s *Paradiso*, the fruits of his epic *Divine Comedy*. A journey via hell and purgatory has led the pilgrim Dante…
