Click to hear a song of Bernart's: When I see the lark beat his wings for joy against the sun's ray, until he forgets to f...

"If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, to pl...

A friend and blogger points to a nice series of brief essays by Fred Sanders on the ecumenical councils' Christology: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5...

Rivisiting the Canon Wars , from the NYT: “ Our nation, like most nations of the world, is devaluing the humanities vis-à-vis science and te...

The Dartmouth Dante Project is one of the oldest online sites devoted to things Dantesque. Jutta recently pointed us to a vast resource now...

. . . the emotional world of the Purgatorio is one that we understand. The souls in Purgatory are sorry for their sins, and they are in pain...

Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore come l'ausello in selva a la v e rdura; né fe' amor anti che gentil core, né gentil core a...

I see scarlet, green, blue, white, yellow gardens, bushes, plains, hills and valleys; and the birds' voices sound and echo with swee...

The "Purgatorio", perhaps the most artistically perfect of the three canticles , owes less to the beauty of the separate episodes....

This is just a placeholder for a future more-in-depth discussion. The Wikipedia article on Paideia is here - it's brief and not very sa...

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...