For 10 points, name this author of La Vita Nuova and the Paradiso, part of his Divine Comedy.
In one poem, Love tells this man to "do your best to honor me" after he "felt a loving spirit suddenly." His beloved's lips produce a tender spirit inciting sighs from the soul in a poem which claims she is "so gentle and so honest." This possible author of the Letter to Can Grande wrote a work in which he is shocked by the presence of Ripheus the Trojan and sees souls arrange themselves to form the petals of a rose as Saint Bernard prays for him in the Empyrean. In that work, Thomas Aquinas tells him of Francis of Assisi as he ascends through the nine celestial spheres with Beatrice. For 10 points, name this author of La Vita Nuova and the Paradiso, part of his Divine Comedy.
In one poem, Love tells this man to "do your best to honor me" after he "felt a loving spirit suddenly."
{Dante Alighieri} [accept either underlined portion]