![]() ![]() “My will and desire were revolved, as a wheel that is equally turned, by the Love which moves the sun and other stars.” All three books end with the word “stars ” one of the most famous last lines in literature is the end of the Paradiso: “To course over better waters the little boat of my genius now raises her sails…”Īnd the Paradiso reminds the reader that not everyone can commit themselves to the open ocean – those of us who are following only in “little barks” would do well to turn back to the shore, as the muses point Dante to Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. ![]() The entire Comedy, his greatest poem (so great that we know it as The Divine Comedy), is full of images of ships, navigation, sailing, and stars (for example, the quote on the home page). I have Dante to thank for my love of celestial navigation. ![]() “Shakespeare and Dante divide the modern world between them ” T.S. Dante, the Italian author of The Divine Comedy, lived in the late 13th and early 14th centuries, and is, to my mind, the world’s greatest poet. ![]()
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