Abstract
The article focuses on three dimensions of the ›celestial sounds‹ of Dante’s Divine Comedy, which are important to understand the relation of song, singing and canto in the Paradiso-Cantica. This essay studies the way the narrator Dante describes the harmony of the heavens in Paradise, which produces the celestial sound that reigns all over the heavenly Paradise. Then, it looks at the songs of the angels and the singing of the angels by concentrating on the figura of the spiro and the laughter of the universe. Finally, it reflects on the relation of the Canto and Dante’s singing. The result ›celestial sounds‹ involve an aesthetic practice that combines the staging of the angelic song and the presentation of celestial harmony in a literary text: A text that embodies the divine greatness and love on the one hand and communicates both of them to the earthly reader in a well-tempered text on the other hand.
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