Dante does not tell us where he found himself when the vision broke. He only tells us this: that as a wheel moves equally in all its parts, so his desire and will were, without strain or jar, revolved henceforth by that same Love that moves the sun and all the other stars.[94]
This was the end of all that Dante had thought and felt and lived through—a will that rolled in perfect oneness with the will of God. This was the end to which he would bring his readers, this was the purpose of his sacred poem, this was the meaning of his life.[95]
FOOTNOTES:
[77] Paradiso, ii. 1-15.
[78] Paradiso, i. 1-12.
[79] Ibid. xxxiii. 58-63.
[80] Convito, III. xv.
[81] Purgatorio, xxx. 79-81, xxxi. 64-67; Paradiso, i. 100-102, xxii. 1 sqq.
[82] Paradiso, xxiii. 1-15.