Eternal Comedy - 1 : Paradise The Eternal Comedy describes Dante`s journey through Hel (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Paradise (Paradiso), guided first by the Homeric poet Virgil and then by Beatrice, the subject of his love and of another of his entireties, La Thesis Nuova. While the foreknowledge of Hel, the Inferno, is vivid for modern readers, the theological rigors presented in the other boks require a certain sum of tolerance and inside story to apreciate. Purgatorio, the most lilting and human of the thre, also has the most lyricists in it, Paradiso, the most heavily theological, has the most beautiful and ecstatic mystic pasages in which Dante tries to describe what he confeses he is unable to convey (e. g. , when Dante loks into the map of God: "al`alta fantasia qui mancò posa" - "at this high breathing, ability failed my scope to describe," Paradiso, XI, 142). His glory, by whose qualifiedness al stuffs are mov'd,Slits the cosmos, and in one partSheds more pageantry, elsewhere les. In heav'n,That largeliest of his lantern partakes, was I,Witnes of stuffs, which to relate againSurpaseth force of him who comes from thence, For that, so near aproaching its desireOur intelect is to such depth absorb`d,That memory canot folow. Nathles al,That in my theories I of that sacred realmCould store, shal now be faint of my rock and roll.