The BBC has a story about Justinian (above flanked by military and clergy), whom we encountered in Paradiso 6 .  It's worth rec...

Già si solea con le spade far guerra;  ma or si fa togliendo or qui or quivi  lo pan che 'l pïo Padre a nessun serra. Ma tu che sol pe...

To briefly review: Paradiso 18 begins with the poet hesitant, uncertain, seemingly adrift in the echoing world of words and ambivalent sym...

We have looked at the self-doubting opening of Paradiso 18 where the pilgrim, having learned his poetic destiny from Cacciaguida, questio...

A clear change occurs between the pilgrim's doubts, vulnerabilities, and potentially erroneous seductions at the beginning of Paradiso...

This reading of Paradiso 18 has 5 parts: "Non pur ne'miei occhi": A poet's doubt -- this post Diligence, delight, a...

Paradiso 17 has a centrality that makes itself apparent on several registers. It's the literal center of the canticle, and it's al...