Themes

God and the Divine the glory that penetrates the universe and shines more in one part and less in another (canto I), the reason God creates, which is so that his splendor may say I subsist (canto XXIX), the point of light on which heaven and nature depend (canto XXVIII), the... Faith Dante's definition to Peter, substance of things hoped for and argument of things not seen (canto XXIV), hope as a certain expectation of future glory (canto XXV), the question about the man of the Indus (canto XIX), the salvation of Trajan and Rhipeus (canto... Knowledge and Wisdom the spots of the Moon, in which reason has short wings (canto II), the twelve wise men of the Sun (canto X), Solomon and kingly prudence, with lead on the feet (canto XIII), beatitude that is born of seeing and only afterward of loving (canto XXVIII), and the... Justice and Law the eagle that Justinian hands over to the judgment of whoever appropriates it and whoever fights it (canto VI), the cross measured by the nature assumed and by the person (canto VII), the Eagle that denies mortals the judge's seat (canto XIX), Trajan and... Home, Exile, and Return ancient Florence, sober and chaste (canto XV), the city that Fortune covers and uncovers (canto XVI), the bread of others that tastes of salt (canto XVII), the imagined return to the baptismal font, as a poet, with another voice (canto XXV), and the treasure... Language and Narration the verb Dante invents, transhumanize (canto I), the reader's little boat (canto II), the souls who write letters like flocks of birds (canto XVIII), the poem that leaps (canto XXIII) and the pen that leaps (canto XXIV), the name of God that changed from I to... Love God's will as the sea toward which what he creates moves (canto III), the love of Venus that no longer repents but laughs (canto IX), Poverty as Francis's wife (canto XI), the sea of crooked love from which charity drew Dante (canto XXVI), the circle that is...