XEE4145322 The Divine Comedy, Paradiso, Canto 31: The saintly throng form a rose in the empyrean (rose celeste) - by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), 1885 (engraving) by Dore, Gustave (1832-83); Private Collection; (add.info.: Beatrice leads Dante into the Empyrean, or highest level of heaven, where he beholds the angles and souls of the blessed forming a snow white rose in attendance upon the Deity (Paradiso: XXXI, 1-3): Canto XXXI lines 1-3 \'In fashion as a snow white rose, lay then / Before my view the saintly multitude, / Which in his own blood Christ espoused\'. Dante and Beatrice contemplating the rose, symbolising divine love, in which souls of the faithful are enthroned in the Tenth Sphere of Heaven.); Stefano Bianchetti.