Love Which Moves the Sun and Other Stars

The Divine Comedy

Dante and Beatrice. Painting by Henry Holiday. Public Domain image. Details at Google Art Project at Google Cultural Institute (Wikimedia Commons).

April 17, 2024. Vol 17, Issue 17

But already my desire and my will, 
were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, 
by the Love which moves the sun and the stars. 
- Dante, Paradiso (Canto 33)