The BBC has a story about Justinian (above flanked by military and clergy), whom we encountered in Paradiso 6 .  It's worth rec...

A good deal of the story Beatrice tells in Paradiso 7 plays off of the question of direct versus indirect similarity, or proximity, or ca...

Paradiso 7 might present some interpretive difficulties, but there can be no argument that its opening tercet offers a song, sung by Justin...

Raffaello Sorbi: Piccarda taken from the convent Often close reading is a matter of attention to words -- their nuances, quirks of sens...

When one wants to indicate that something is right, fair, or fitting in modern Italian, one often uses the word  giusto.   If someone says ...