“…A copy of the entire Divine Comedy, micro-inscribed on sheets of a titanium and gold alloy, will be sent up into space and left there to float in the heavens among the stars that Dante wrote about.
The last word in each of the three parts is ‘stelle’ (stars), including the famous final line which defines God as ‘The love that moves the sun and the other stars.’
For the space project, two sheets measuring about 29 cm by 43 cm (11 X 17 inches) and folded in four, accordion style, will each be inscribed with the entire poem of some 14,200 lines containing about 32,000 words.” –Phillip Pullella, Reuters, June 10, 2021
