he looks even higher—and what does he see? He sees a point of light surrounded by immense spheres of angels, that is to say, by another immense ball that, in his words “surrounds and is at the same time surrounded by” the sphere of our universe! Here are Dante’s verses from Canto XXVII of the Paradiso: Questa altra parte dell’Universo d’un cerchio lui comprende si come questo li altri: “This other part of the universe surrounds the first like the first surrounds the others.”
