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 ...

εἴθε   φθέγμα   γηρύσαισθέ   μοι 1075 καὶ   μαρτυρήσαιτ᾽ . . . would that you could utter speech on my behalf  and bear me w...

This group has completed its collective reading of the Hippolytus, so I'll post a few afterthoughts rather than continue with close rea...