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WEIRDEST
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Ethnological
Investigatory
Allegorical Poetry
Cardinal Griffolino
DISTRESSFUL BREATH
THE JOURNEY OF LIFE
The Unlimited Knowledge
Transitional State Of Mind
“Paradiso” is the third and final part of Dante’s Divine Comedy, following the “Inferno” and the “Purgatorio”. It is an allegory telling of Dante’s journey through Heaven, guided by Beatrice, who symbolises Christian grace or revelation. In the poem, Paradise is depicted as a series of concentric spheres surrounding the Earth, consisting of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Fixed Stars, the Primum Mobile and finally, the Empyrean.
Dante’s nine spheres of Heaven are the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Fixed Stars, and the Primum Mobile. These are associated by Dante with the nine levels of the angelic hierarchy. Dante also relies on traditional associations, such as the one between Venus and romantic love. The first three spheres (which fall within the shadow of the Earth) are associated with deficient forms of Fortitude, Justice, and Temperance. The next four are associated with positive examples of Prudence, Fortitude, Justice, and Temperance; while Faith, Hope, and Love appear together in the eighth sphere.
The poem begins on the night of Maundy Thursday on March 24 (or April 7), 1300, shortly before the dawn of Good Friday. The narrator, Dante himself, is 35 years old, and thus “midway in the journey of our life” (Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita)—half of the biblical lifespan of 70 (Psalm 89:10 in the Vulgate; numbered as Psalm 90:10 in the King James Bible). The poet finds himself lost in a dark wood (selva oscura), astray from the “straight way” (diritta via, also translatable as “right way”) of salvation. He sets out to climb directly up a small mountain, but his way is blocked by three beasts he cannot evade: a lonza (usually rendered as “leopard” or “leopon”), a leone (lion), and a lupa (she-wolf). The three beasts, taken from Jeremiah 5:6, are thought to symbolize the three kinds of sin that bring the unrepentant soul into one of the three major divisions of Hell. According to John Ciardi, these are incontinence (the she-wolf); violence and bestiality (the lion); and fraud and malice (the leopard). It is now dawn of Good Friday, April 8, with the sun rising in Aries. The beasts drive him back despairing into the darkness of error, a “lower place” (basso loco) where the sun is silent (l sol tace). However, Dante is rescued by a figure who announces that he was born sub Iulio (i.e., in the time of Julius Caesar) and lived under Augustus: it is the shade of the Roman poet Virgil, author of the Aeneid, a Latin epic which also featured a journey through the underworld.
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About
“We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock—with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos—is alive.”
Yvon Chouinard
Gleaning vernacular letterforms from the realm of 19th and 20th century headstones (including from the notorious Père-Lachaise cemetery) as initial inspirations, Alex Chavot revisits these varied sources into a new display typeface with a modern sensibility. Discreet and elegant in its contrast, Granit is a sharp serif typeface that speaks with refinement and achieves the perfect balance between gravity and delicacy. The proportions of its capitals—loosely based on the monumental Roman models—give it the austere “gravitas” and graceful confidence of historical inscriptional letters while, on the other hand, its lowercases tend to be slightly more condensed, thus creating an unexpected contrast in text settings. Granit inherits its distinctive personality from a very specific stencil-like feature often found on letters such as “a”, “g”, “n”, “r”, “y”… While giving us a glimpse at the by-gone charm of traditional stone carving techniques, these subtleties empower Granit’s palette with a more eccentric and optimistic character that reinvigorate any composition. This fragile tension between stone-harshness and hand-finesse is even more palpable in Granit’s italic: with a slightly-more-condensed width, it oscillates between mechanical slant and calligraphic forms—additionally offering alternate characters for designers to play with. Granit definitively aims at top league whimsical titling players with its full set of 230+ ligatures to create dynamic, expressive headlines.
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