Dante Alighieri: Paradiso

The much-awaited final chapter in our celebration of Italy’s supreme poet has arrived. Following last year’s Dante Alighieri: Inferno and Dante Alighieri: Purgatorio, our Divina Commedia series is completed with the release of the astonishing Dante Alighieri: Paradiso.
Dante Alighieri: Paradiso more than lives up to its name and the high standards of craftsmanship set by its predecessors. Whereas Inferno and Purgatorio reckoned with matters of sin, our tribute to the third book of the Divine Comedy symbolizes virtue and divine love in both spirit and style. The striking beauty of Dante Alighieri: Paradiso has dual significance: as a stand-alone piece, and as a gateway to one of the most accomplished collections created in our 110-year history. Its design continues the essential artisanal concept and narrative style of Inferno and Purgatorio. Once again, a Montegrappite core combines with elaborate lost wax sculpting, but this time, the earthly circles and terraces of earlier editions are replaced by Heaven’s celestial spheres. Each sphere is represented by colored stones – zirconia (silver) and precious gems (gold) – set into the length of the barrel, with labels in English and Italian. On the opposing side, scenes from Dante’s pilgrimage towards God depict his encounters with human virtue: fortitude, justice, temperance and prudence on spheres 1-7, followed by faith, hope and charity/love (sphere 8). Nine orders of angels encircle the cap, comprising the ‘Primum Mobile’ – a ninth cosmological sphere around which all else rotates. They rise towards three shining discs on the cap top, elaborating Dante’s visualization of God as the holy trinity. Glorifications on blind cap, cap rings and clip add period-correct ornamentation. Like the prequel designs, editions for Dante Alighieri: Paradiso follow Dante’s numerological symbolism, with 333 fountain pens and rollerballs in sterling silver/vermeil, and 9 of each in 18K yellow/white gold. Fountain pens are piston-fed, with a 18K white/yellow gold nib (EF, F, M, B, BB, Stub 1.1) custom-engraved with Dante’s likeness, and paired with an ebonite feed. Custom packaging again resembles an antique leather book to perfectly reinforce the three-volume structure of the Divine Comedy. Realized in sky blue, it completes a trilogy that reflects Dante’s progression through hell, purgatory and heaven.

The New Aurora Trilobiti collection is born, inspired by the transparencies of marine animal fossils that extinct about 65 million years ago. Aurora was inspired by the harmony of its typical wrapped spiral shape and in its divine proportion to create a New Limited Edition collection. A series of transparent resin fountain pens with colored nibs, wrapped in elegant satin finishes. The Cap and barrel in transparent resin and cobalt blue satin trims. The fountain pen is enhanced with an 18kt gold nib in cobalt blue and available in M,F, and XF and is Piston Fill.

The first stop on the Secret Journey to Italy is Matera. Known throughout the world for the famous Stones called Sassi, not everyone knows,that there is a large underground water tank in the city called “Palombaro Lungo”.

This is the real secret of this city, the large underground cistern that supplied the city with water and which was entirely carved by hand in the soft sedimentary rock, rich in fossil shells. It is the inspiration behind this pen. The Pen is enchanced with 18kt gold nib, available in M,F,XF,B.

LIMITED EDITION OF ONLY 888 PIECES