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DanteDante’s mind was deeply rooted in this tradition, and I believe that not only many particular passages in the Commedia can be explained in this manner, but that the whole conception of the great poem has to be considered from this angle. It is not difficult to prove that the community of the blessed in the Empireo, in which DanteDante’s Paradiso culminates, is arranged according to a figurative pattern. Not only the world of the Christian religion, but also the ancient world is included in DanteDante’s figural system; the Roman empire of AugustusAugustus is for DanteDante a figure of God’s eternal empire, and the prominent part Virgil plays in DanteDante’s work is based on this assumption. DanteDante is not the first to subject all the material of human history to the figural conception; biblical history, Jewish and Christian, came to be seen as universal human history, and all pagan historical material had to be inserted and adapted to this framework. Especially Roman history was interpreted by Saint AugustineAugustinus and other patristic authors as a path of Christan universal history and of the plan of providence. Medieval authors followed this tradition, and very often used it for political purposes, in the long struggle between imperium and sacerdotiumimperiumsacerdotium. So did DanteDante, and most of his figures taken from Roman history are connected with his political ideas, as the following example shows.