The Heaven of the Sun continued. The praise of St. Dominic by St. Bonaventura, a Franciscan. ↩

By this figure Dante indicates that the circle of spirits was revolving horizontally, and not vertically. In the Convito , III 5, he makes the same comparison in speaking of the apparent motion of the sun; non a modo di mola, ma di rota , not in fashion of a millstone, but of a wheel. ↩

Ezekiel 1:28:⁠—