The oldest known manuscript of the Iliad, the Venetus A , is being digitized . Along with it, the scholia, or commentaries, in the margins w...

Jutta points us to some superb illustrations of the seventh terrace including the one above by Blake.

Nothing particular to do with Dante, but given our readings in Genesis and the classics, I couldn't resist noting this summary with som...

Inside the building that tranquillity gives way to a comic-book version of Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” with strict divisions between various wo...

Jutta has found the complete tenzone of Dante and Forese Donati - a poetic sparring in which each poet uses poetry to take a bite out of the...

I'm unable to find a text of Dante's tenzone with Forese Donati online. Forese, in Canto 23, is made unrecognizeable by famine unti...

Not surprisingly, the story of Erysichthon which Dante mentions in Canto 23.25 involves a tree. The story of Erysichthon's destruction ...

De la mondizia sol voler fa prova, che, tutto libero a mutar convento, l'alma sorprende, e di voler le giova. Prima vuol ben, ma non las...

It's not easy to find even a synopsis of Statius' Thebaid . The epic, in 12 books (same as the Aeneid), tells the story of the Seven...

Dante conveys the speed of his ascent to the first sphere (Moon) (Paradiso 2) by saying it took no longer than it takes an arrow "to st...

In Rome, there is a church called the Church of the Suffering Souls (address: Parrocchia Sacro Cuore in Prati-Lungotevere Prati 12-Roma, whi...

Canto 21, 7-14: And behold -- even as Luke records for us that Christ, new risen from his burial cave, appeared to two along his way -- a sh...