Canto 34 of Dante's Paradiso?

There can be no doubt that if Dante had gone on to compose canto 34 of Paradiso (adjustment made to the numerical format of the Commedia, i.e. 34+33+33=100), that would have been the world's greatest poem of silence.

One of the major topics in the Commedia are the limits of representation. Dante explores this time and again in all three canticles. In Par…