Profile of Dante Alighieri, a detail inspired by a painting by Sandro Botticelli (private collection). Around, the inscription “REPUBBLICA ITALIANA” with a star at its end.

Representation of Paradise with the sky, the sun, and the stars highlighted, above a bed of clouds, a detail of the "Angels of Paradise," a fresco by Giotto created in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. In the border, the verse "The love that moves the sun and the other stars" that concludes the canto of Paradise. On the right, the denomination "5 EURO"; on the left, "2023," the year of coin issuance; at the bottom, the "R," identifying the Rome Mint, and the signature of the author "MOMONI."

Paradiso (Italian for "Paradise" or "Heaven") is the third and final part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and the Purgatorio. It is an allegory telling of Dante's journey through Heaven, guided by Beatrice, who symbolises theology. In the poem, Paradise is depicted as a series of concentric spheres surrounding the Earth, consisting of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Fixed Stars, the Primum Mobile and finally, the Empyrean. It was written in the early 14th century. Allegorically, the poem represents the soul's ascent to God.