Dante Test - Paradiso

Where are Dante and Beatrice at the beginning of the Paradiso?

The earthly paradise

What does Dante imitate Beatrice in doing?

Staring at the sun

Where do Dante and Beatrice pass through as they soar?

The sphere of fire where they first hear the music of the spheres

What is the first sphere of Heaven?

The Moon

What does Beatrice explain to Dante on the Moon?

The truth of the Moon's markings

What souls reside in the sphere of the Moon?

The Inconstant

Name two of the Inconstant

Piccarda

Empress Constance

What does Piccarda explain to Dante?

Every soul in Heaven rejoices fully at where God put them

Who says, "In His Will is our peace?"

Piccarda

What question does Dante grapple with on the Moon?

Free will (Plato's theory that everything is essentially predetermined)

What is the second sphere of Heaven?

Mercury

What souls reside on Mercury?

The Seekers of Honor

Name one soul who is a Seeker of Honor

Emperor Justinian

What does Justinian discourse on?

The Roman Eagle

What hymn do Justinian and his companions sing?

Hymn to the God of Battles

What does Beatrice's discourse on Mercury deal with?

The double nature of the Crucifixion and why the Crucifixion was the greatest act of all eternity

What is the third sphere of Heaven?

Venus

What souls reside on Venus?

The Amorous

Name a few of the souls of the Amorous

Charles Martel of Anjou

Cunizza

Folquet

Rahab

What is Charles's discourse concerning?

The diversity of natural talents

Who was the first soul to ascend to the sphere of Venus?

Rahab

What are Folquet's denunciations?

Denunciation of Boniface VIII's negligence of the Holy Land and denunciation of Florence

What is the fourth sphere of Heaven?

The Sun

What souls reside in the sphere of the Sun?

Doctors of the Church

Name some of the souls of the Doctors of the Church

Aquinas

Bonaventure

Solomon

How is the sphere of the Sun arranged when Dante gets there?

A sphere of 12 souls (a garland) begins to dance around him and a sphere of another 12 souls surround the first sphere

Name one of the Doctors of the Church in the first garland of souls

Aquinas

What does Aquinas discourse on?

The praise of the life of St. Francis and the degeneracy of the Dominicans

Name one of the Doctors of the Church in the second garland of souls

Bonaventure

What does Bonaventure discourse on?

The praise of the life of St. Dominic and the degeneracy of the Franciscans

What is the fifth sphere of Heaven?

Mars

What souls reside on Mars?

Warriors of God

What does Dante behold on the sphere of Mars?

A vision of Christ on the Cross

Name one of the souls of the Warriors of God

Cacciaguida

Who is Cacciaguida?

Dante's great great grandfather

He was a knight and followed Conrad on the Crusades and died a martyr

What does Dante ask Cacciaguida about?

The history of early Florence

All of the dark prophecies against him

What does Cacciaguida attribute the degeneracy of Florence to?

The "mongrelization" of the families of Florence

What is the sixth sphere of Heaven?

Jupiter

What souls reside on Jupiter?

The Just and Temperate Rulers

What vision does Dante see on Jupiter?

The vision of the flashing lights of justice and of the Eagle and the lilies

What does Dante pray for on Jupiter?

That the souls of Heavenly justice will visit their wrath on the Pope because he is so corrupt

What does the Eagle tell Dante?

that the virtuous pagan shall sit nearer to Christ than those who take Christ's name in vain

A denunciation of the bestialized Kings of Christendom in 1300

Name some of the souls of the Just and Temperate Rulers

David

Trajan

Hezekiah

Constantine

William of Sicily

Ripheus

What is the seventh sphere of Heaven?

Saturn

What souls reside on Saturn?

The Contemplative

Name two of the souls of the contemplative

Peter Damiano

St. Benedict

What does he see on Saturn?

The Golden Ladder

What does Peter Damiano explain to Dante?

The mystery of predestination

denunciation of papal corruption

heaven's righteous indignation

What is the eighth sphere of Heaven?

The sphere of the Fixed Stars

What does Beatrice have Dante do once they reach the sphere of the fixed stars?

Look back at all the spheres of heaven, and of earth, below them