It’s a great feeling to sometimes find back to the deeper experience of reading a good book, like we’re doing now with a four volume history work over the last 2,000 years. And we’re slowly discovering new things about the Easter Roman Empire and the times between the fall of the Western Empire in 410 and Emperor Justinian trying to reconquer Italy from the Goths.
Which also connects to Chapter 6 in Dante’s Paradiso which is fully dedicated to Roman history through the voice of Justinian himself!
And.. we’re also pondering the deeper allegorical meanings of the Earthly Paradise at the top of Mount Purgatory – and how it is referencing the deep symbolism from the Revelation by St. John. It’s partly extra complicated because most of the commentaries are more descriptive on these chapters.. but we are looking into the Italian scholarship as well.. doing a bit of research!