Paradiso Dante Alighieri Fiction Classics Literary

<p><strong>. . . All things whate'er they beHave order among themselves: and this is FormThat makes the universe resemble God.</strong></p><p>Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82) was America's most widely read poet of the 19th century. Yet little remembered today is the ambitious and laborious project of his middle years: his translation for New World readers of Dante Alighieri's epic trilogy of a journey through Hell Purgatory and Heaven.</p><p>In <em>Paradiso</em> the third and final book Dante enters the realms of the upper Heavens where he and others rail against the avarice luxury and corruption of ecclesiastics -- and where no less than Saints Peter James and John challenge Dante on questions of Faith Hope and Charity.</p><p>Dante learns of the creation of the angels the fall of Lucifer and gains final insight into the mystery of human and divine nature in this fitting sequel to <em>Inferno</em> and <em>Purgatorio.</em></p>