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Dante’s Paradiso At the very opening, Dante reinforces the idea of a hierarchy of sin when he says “glory…glows in one part more and another less…” (l. 3, canto I) It becomes clear from the start that there will be levels in heaven, as there were in the Inferno and in Purgatorio. Dante is extremely sparse in his metaphors with animals in Paradiso. The first he mentions is the eagle. In the context it seems that the eagle might stand for fearlessness, bravery, glory, or freedom, as Dante compares it to Beatrice.
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