Another lovely APOD Jupiter and Venus picture ... The Astronomy Picture Of the Day website has a new glorious picture of Jupiter and Venus together in the sky, along with a telescope, and children being shown this wonder. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230315.html ~*~*~*~ I got to thinking about Andrew II of Hungary, again. He seemed to be the [...]
Category: Dante
14th century notable, Saint Jadwig, plus a little Dante
Also known as, getting deep in the weeds... ; ) Dante began the 14th century, dying in 1321. Saint Jadwig finished it. She died in 1399, along with her only child, when she was about twenty-five years old. Her footprint is immortalized in the walls of a Carmelite church. She was declared King [sic] of [...]
Jupiter, Venus, and the ecliptic
(The two little crescents in the above picture are the planets Jupiter and Venus. Their shape is an artifact of my camera and blowing up the picture beyond what it can manage.) There are two definitions of the ecliptic that are easy to find. One says that the ecliptic is the plane of the earth's [...]
Who is Matilda in the Divine Comedy?
Who is Matilda? When Dante reaches the top of Purgatory he encounters a lady who guides him through the mysteries he encounters. She is on the opposite side of a stream which he has found. And there appeared to me … A lady all alone, who went along Singing and culling floweret after floweret … [...]
How does a mirror show us Christ?
After Dante passes the last ledge in Purgatory and braves the flames that he compares to molten glass in temperature, the sun sets and he can not go further. Even though he is now at the top of Mount Purgatory the rule that no progress is made in the dark remains. He lies down on [...]
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