Behind him is Paradise.

In his hand is the "Divine Comedy".

I say no more of the poet here, because a large part of the chapter on the Badia is given to him.
Near the Dante picture in the left aisle are two Donatellos--the massive S.John the Evangelist, seated, who might have given ideas to Michelangelo for his Moses a century and more later; and, nearer the door, between the tablets to De Fabris and Squarciaparello, the so-called Poggio Bracciolini, a witty Italian statesman and Humanist and friend of the Medici, who, however, since he was much younger than this figure at the time of its exhibition, and is not known to have visited Florence till later, probably did not sit for it.

But it is a powerful and very natural work, although its author never intended it to stand on any floor, even of so dim a cathedral as this.

The S.John, I may say, was brought from the old facade--not Arnolfo's, but the committee's facade--where it had a niche about ten feet from the ground.