As we find ourselves in the dark wood of the final cantos of Purgatorio , several have related the triumphal procession, the sacred army, th...

John D. Sinclair notes an underlying relation within Purgatorio 29 - 31: The twenty-ninth canto is occupied with revelation; . . . it is al...

Not an exhaustive list, but some links to some of the readings we are considering for the Spring. Not all of these are worthwhile translatio...

A♦t the beginning of Purg. 29, Matilda sang the psalm Beati quorum tecta sunt peccata! Blessed are those whose sins are covered. Purg. 30-31...

At least one Roman Catholic scholar thinks so : The Rev. David Beauregard, a Roman Catholic priest who teaches Shakespeare at the seminary o...

"Dante, perché Virgilio se ne vada, non pianger anco, non piangere ancora; ché pianger ti conven per altra spada". Quasi amm...

A recent New York Times review of the Hollander version of the Paradiso can be found here . A snippet: From that time on my power of sigh...

Here be more Griffins. And more about them here .

Quando il settentrïon del primo cielo, che né occaso mai seppe né orto né d'altra nebbia che di colpa velo, e che faceva lì ciascuno acc...

Augustine, Confessions - 11.28.37 But how is that future diminished or consumed, which as yet is not? or how that past increased, whic...

As early as the third millennium B.C., Mesopotamian scribes began to catalogue the clay tablets in their collections. For ease of reference,...

For possible future reference, here's a link to a theologian's review of an atheistic scientist's book about God. The scientist...