Much time and space here was given to Paradiso 18   for two reasons - first, it traces a clear change in the poet's power to speak (an...

To briefly review: Paradiso 18 begins with the poet hesitant, uncertain, seemingly adrift in the echoing world of words and ambivalent sym...

This reading of Paradiso 18 has 5 parts: "Non pur ne'miei occhi": A poet's doubt -- this post Diligence, delight, a...

Paradiso 17 has a centrality that makes itself apparent on several registers. It's the literal center of the canticle, and it's al...

We've been asking for a while why it is that at the midpoint of the  Paradiso,  when we ought to be ascending to the Empyrean, Dante b...

This will just be a brief suggestion, rather than a reading. The Paradiso , the city of God, spends more than three cantos at its dead cent...

The history of Florence before and after Dante is so rich and fraught with conflicts, treacheries and a wide cast of players as to make it ...

I've been wrestling with Mario's question of two weeks ago: Why, he asked, does Dante put this long, historically detailed image ...