A sonnet on the Purgatorio: With snow-white veil and garments as of flame, She stands before thee, who so long ago Filled thy young hea...

Shaw shares a link to this interesting look at number in the Comedy: The Divine Comedy and Kabala Dante Alighier...

A writer and a teacher of literature who happens to be a friend offered some thoughts about reading -- how it might be taught through the e...

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...