figuraeDavid Brazil Whats history? Dante Aligheri ensconced Joachim of Fiore, di spirito profetico dotato, in the heaven of the wise (Paradiso XII) as testament to the earlier writers visionary exegesis of Johns Apocalypse, the scriptures last book, from which the Calabrian abbot exegeted a pictorial history of the worlds successive stages, culminating in the age of the Holy Spirit. David Brazils Figurae collects the first eight fascicles of a projected