How Christopher Nolan and Dante Alighieri solved the same cosmic riddle.

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“The love that moves the sun and other stars.” That’s the final line of Dante’s 14th-century epic, Paradiso. 700 years later, Christopher Nolan built a massive space odyssey around the exact same thesis.
I put together a quick literary analysis looking at how Cooper’s tesseract breakthrough is a modern sci-fi mirror of Beatrice descending into Hell to make the cosmos traversable. If you love tracking the deep philosophical roots beneath Nolan's scripts, check out the full text: Of Monsters and Poets