Any day I get to reference the Divine Comedy in a paper is a good day. Initially, I was interested in the passages surrounding this for their discussion of Dante's treatment of the Christian life. But then Beatrice came up and I had to repeat it here and everything happened so quickly:
This is why I love Dante.When Dante and his poem venture, as best they may, into the world of Reality, his guide is Beatrice, who represents his own personal experience of the immanence of the Creator in the creature. In her he had seen, in those moments of revelation which he describes in the Vita Nuova, the eternal Beauty shining through the created beauty, the reality of Beatrice as God knew her.
(From Barbara Reynolds' introduction to Paradise, p. 20)
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