Augustine

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In Canto XXXII of the Paradiso, at v. 35, Dante mentions Augustine (in the form «Augustino») in a trio that pairs him with Francis and Benedict, placing him among the prominent figures of the Christian tradition. The authorized notes to Canto X of the Paradiso recall him as the author of the De civitate Dei, the theological work on the history of the earthly and celestial civitas to which Paulus Orosius provided historiographical support with the Historiae adversus paganos, composed at Augustine's own suggestion. In the same tenth heaven Dante places this figure alongside figures of doctors and systematizers of medieval knowledge, including Boethius (indicated as «l'alta mente»), Isidore of Seville, Bede the Venerable, and, in the twelfth heaven, Hugh of Saint-Victor and Peter Comestor, representatives of the Augustinian mystical current. Such mention is therefore placed in the Paradiso, among the blessed whom Dante contemplates in his celestial vision.