A tantalizing buried library at Herculaneum could hold some lost works of Sophocles, Aristotle and more. The painstaking methods - old and...

L'arte non riproduce ciò che è visibile, ma rende visibile ciò che non sempre lo è. - Paul Klee As John Sinclair points out in ...

Purgatorio 4 begins with an assertion about the nature of the soul based upon  esperïenza vera; namely, that the soul is a single entity c...

Even as we are engaged in a slow reading* of parts of the Purgatorio in preparation for tackling the Paradiso , we can rest assured that w...

Reading  Purgatorio 3, we found the canto brought into an interesting relation two radically distinct modes: the theoretical realm of intel...

This exhibition of Greek bronzes, currently in Los Angeles, will come to Washington DC later this year - and from what one can see , it is...

(Written with time in short supply - a future post might be warranted.) Before a favoring wind the fleet sped on. The line in close arra...

biondo era e bello e di gentile aspetto ... Before we look at the role of Manfred in detail in  Purgatorio 3 , his entrance is worth n...

Corpo , the word for "body," appears four times in Purgatorio 3 -- more than in any other canto of the canticle, commentators no...

The beauty briefly experienced in Purgatorio 2 is intimately interwoven with this canticle's concern with the Aesthetic. We saw how th...

There is so much going on in each canto of the Commedia as to confound exposition. The Purgatorio can seem more straightforward. It's ...