For the question of the War in Heaven, the fall of Satan and his later career, Jutta suggests this article from the Catholic Encyclopedia , ...

It seems that Cantos 14 through 20 contain another architectonic pattern that remained unnoticed for centuries, until Charles Singleton poin...

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed tutelage. Tutelage is the inability to use one's own understanding without an...

Giotto: Wrath Dante interlaces several heterogeneous elements in this canto, not all of them in any obvious way linked to wrath. To name onl...

Three times in canto 15, Dante loses his power of sight: with the angel, during the "visione estatica," and in the thick envelopin...

Alain Badiou, a contemporary French thinker, offers this comment about how the concept of "evil" is handled in politics and media ...

The headline might be something of an exaggeration, but according to new archaeological research reviewed in Science Magazine, not as much ...

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...