Illustration above is of Dante's Divine Comedy from Venice around 1390
"Lume e' la' su che visibile face
lo creatore a quella creatura
che solo in lui vedere ha la sua pace.
E' si distende in circula figura,
in tanto che la sua circunferenza
sarebbe al sol troppo larga cintura."
Paradiso XXX 100-106
"Light is there above which makes the creator visible to every creature that has his peace only in seeing him, and it spreads to so wide a circle that the circumference would be too great a girdle for the sun"
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