The heavenly Eagle’s words
In canto XVIII of Paradise Dante and Beatrice ascend to the sixth heaven, that of Jupiter, where they see a large number of radiant souls – the souls of the Just – which move around forming letters of the alphabet so as to write in the sky a sentence which is a direct admonition to earth-bound governments: “Diligite iustitiam qui iudicatis terram”[1]. Other shining spirits then descend in order to arrange themselves into the last M of the writing, gradually changing it into the figure [...]