Arline shared this interview with Caroline Alexander, whose new translation of the Iliad recently was released to high expectations, inclu...

We note with regret the passing of Cindy Bennett, whose good humor and ardent questions through many of our group's readings will be mi...

This is the fourth in a series of posts about the opening movement of Dante's Paradiso . Part 1       Part 2       Part 3     ...

This is the third in a series of posts about the opening movement of Dante's Paradiso .  Part 1       Part 2       Part 3       Pa...

[Note: A much better map of Italian dialects has been supplied by our friend Peter D'Epiro (thanks Pete!). A few minor changes to the t...

This is the second in a series of posts about the opening of the Paradiso.   Part 1       Part 2       Part 3       Part 4       Part 5 ...

Our detailed look at Beatrice's language in Paradiso 2 the other day made clear that Dante wasn't kidding when at the opening of t...

The 750th anniversary of Dante's birth in 1265 will be celebrated by the Center for Italian Studies and the Department of Music at th...

First in a series of posts about the opening movement of Dante's Paradiso.  Part 1       Part 2       Part 3       Part 4       Part...

When Dante crosses the threshold into Purgatory proper and hears the door swing shut, he speaks of the one thing that could never be excuse...

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