Dante voyages through paradise in nine spheres, there order is the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Fixed Stars. This is a trip through heaven's journey towards the vision of God in the Empyrean, a realm of pure light (The World of Dante). The sun is the home for the theologians and wise men (Digital Dante). At this time, the sun was seen as a symbol of intellectual power and illumination, it could even represent God. This “planet” was perfect for the theologians and wise men because, like the sun, they shined wisdom and knowledge to the people around them.
Dante begins Canto X by praising God through his creation of paradise and finds himself on the star of the sun. When Dante looks he sees figures that are “brilliant …show more content…
Francis was the son of a wealthy cloth merchant and lived a fairly privileged life. When he was 20 years old he had to fight in the military against a neighboring area of Perugia. Francis was taken as a prisoner of war after his town of Assisi lost the conflict (Danteworlds). Once freed, he decides to leave his military career and reject his merchant heritage. Francis believed that he had a calling from God to help the church, this calling caused him to strip naked and denounce his father and family. He vowed to never see them again and to live a life of poverty. Francis then went on to live a life full of many adventures. These adventures included trips to the Holy Land, and Egypt (Danteworlds). Francis was a part of a group called the Friars Minor which aimed to live a life much like Jesus’ apostles. This group grew throughout the years of his life. Some commenters even think that Dante might have been a part of this community. Those who believe this point out the similarity between“the cord that the character Dante wore in Hell with the simple cord worn by Francis and his followers. This cord is seen as both a symbol of humility and a reminder of the need to restrain the body” (Danteworlds). It is believed that one of the reasons Francis might have been talked about by Dante when he was on the sun is because one of his most famous writings was the Canticle of Brother Sun “in which he praises God for providing humankind with the beauty and beneficent resources of the natural world. In this writing Francis refers to as his siblings including brother sun, sister moon, brother wind, and sister water” (Danteworlds). Francis died near his home town of Assisi in his favorite church, in 1228 Pope Gregory IX declared him as sainthood
Dante begins Canto X by praising God through his creation of paradise and finds himself on the star of the sun. When Dante looks he sees figures that are “brilliant …show more content…
Francis was the son of a wealthy cloth merchant and lived a fairly privileged life. When he was 20 years old he had to fight in the military against a neighboring area of Perugia. Francis was taken as a prisoner of war after his town of Assisi lost the conflict (Danteworlds). Once freed, he decides to leave his military career and reject his merchant heritage. Francis believed that he had a calling from God to help the church, this calling caused him to strip naked and denounce his father and family. He vowed to never see them again and to live a life of poverty. Francis then went on to live a life full of many adventures. These adventures included trips to the Holy Land, and Egypt (Danteworlds). Francis was a part of a group called the Friars Minor which aimed to live a life much like Jesus’ apostles. This group grew throughout the years of his life. Some commenters even think that Dante might have been a part of this community. Those who believe this point out the similarity between“the cord that the character Dante wore in Hell with the simple cord worn by Francis and his followers. This cord is seen as both a symbol of humility and a reminder of the need to restrain the body” (Danteworlds). It is believed that one of the reasons Francis might have been talked about by Dante when he was on the sun is because one of his most famous writings was the Canticle of Brother Sun “in which he praises God for providing humankind with the beauty and beneficent resources of the natural world. In this writing Francis refers to as his siblings including brother sun, sister moon, brother wind, and sister water” (Danteworlds). Francis died near his home town of Assisi in his favorite church, in 1228 Pope Gregory IX declared him as sainthood