The Divine Comedy - Paradise by Dante translated by Charles Eliot Norton. 1892, PDF from books.google.com.
This is the third and final volume in Dante's poetic description of a journey through the three realms of the afterlife. In this volume Dante enters paradise, the heavens of crystalline spheres that surround the earth. There he meets various Saints who enlighten him concerning the nature of the divine and salvation. Dante's universe was the Ptolemaic system where the Earth was at the center and the Planets (wanderers, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn ) and stars occupied various crystalline spheres that rotated above the Earth.
The Sayers translation was purchased back in the 1970's for 90 cents, probably from a book store near PSU. The Norton translation was a .mobi file (3ddcn10.mobi) a project Gutenberg book downloaded from the internet. Also, can be found at books.google.com.
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