Thus in truth the Comedy is a picture of earthly life. The human world in all its breadth and depth is gathered into the structure of the h...

Here is Ovid's portrait of Envy, taken from the story of Aglauros in Book II of the Metamorphoses . Pallas Athena has gone to Envy's...

The World War II experiences of Dr. Peter Gram of our group have been featured in an interview with the local paper. He's also written ...

Bruegel the elder: Pride Giotto: Envy Bruegel: Wrath Wikipedia has a pretty good article on the Seven Deadly Sins here , with more illustrat...

Now these brothers, Cain and Abel, were not both animated by the same earthly desires, nor did the murderer envy the other because he feared...

If time allows, after reading Purgatorio 14, pay another visit to Inferno 13 -- you might find some fascinating echoes, parallels, differen...

"What we're seeing is the top 1% struggling to keep up with the top 1/10th of 1%," he adds. "And those people trying to k...

There are notable differences in medium and spatial orientation, among others, between the Terrace of Envy and that of Pride. First off, whe...

Do remember we are now meeting at the North Library, beginning this Wednesday. Also, just to recall a few notes here that were made a while ...

O superbi cristian, miseri lassi, Che, de la vista de la mente infermi, Fidanza avete ne’ retrosi passi, Non v’accogete voi che noi siam ve...

Shaw emailed to point out an essay in the Jan. 11, 2007 New York Review of Books by Michael Dirda about Dante and Erich Auerbach's stud...

A review of the Fagles translation of the Aeneid by Brad Leithouser which appeared in the Times - thanks Mussy! Wars and a Man There’s a mo...