Mostly from the Louvre - near the end, the fountain in the Luxembourg gardens commissioned by Marie de' Medici.

The liberties taken with the text of the Bible are astonishing, especially when you consider the integrity of many pagan texts. The texts of...

Some snaps taken in June:

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...