Paradiso

I enjoyed the first canto of Paradise in Dante's Divine Comedy.

I reached the Golden Mean of being done. I have the 33 Cantos of the Inferno and 33 of the purgatorio. Now 33 to go.  100 days of Dante. 

Digital Dante

Here is a few excerpts:

Paradiso the paradox of how “more” (“più”) and “less” (“meno”)—in other words, the reality of difference—can coexist with Oneness. The glory of the One who moves all things permeates the universe and glows in one part more and in another less. Dante uses the verb spirare here as he did in Purgatorio 24, where he defines himself as one who takes note when love breathes into him (“quando / Amor mi spira” [Purg. 24.52-53] What happens now as a result of looking at Beatrice (“Nel suo aspetto tal dentro mi fei”, “In watching her, within me I was changed” [67]) is that Dante experiences “trasumanar” (Par. 1.70): this extraordinary coinage, “tras” + “umanar” (a verb made from “umano”), signifies “to go beyond the human” and is typical of how Dante will describe the undescribable. He will make new language. Universe = “the whole world, cosmos,” from Old French univers (12c.), from Latin universum “the universe,” noun use of neuter of adj. universus “all together,” literally “turned into one,” from unus“one” + versus, past participle of vertere “to turn”. The glory of the One who moves all things permeates the universe and glows in one part more and in another less. I was within the heaven that receives more of His light; and I saw things that he who from that height descends, forgets or can not speak; for nearing its desired end, our intellect sinks into an abyss so deep that memory fails to follow it. Nevertheless, as much as I, within my mind, could treasure of the holy kingdom shall now become the matter of my song. The newness of the sound and the great light incited me to learn their cause—I was more keen than I had ever been before.