(One paragraph was revised on 10.1.17, as noted) Paradiso 29:1-12 Quando ambedue li figli di Latona, coperti del Montone e de la Libr...

Excerpt from Delancey Place Today's encore selection -- from  The Pursuit of Italy  by David Gilmour.  In 1861, when the Italian...

In 1929, one of the great readers of the 20th century offered this astonishing claim: . . . although Dante did not know Greek, though he ...

From BBC : The Athenian experiment is notable not merely for the talents it produced: three of the greatest tragedians – Aeschylus, Sopho...

While we are on break for the summer, I've enjoyed a couple of Dante-related resources which might be of interest. While Dante had no...

Aside from an external preoccupation that's consumed a lot of my time recently, internal properties of the text have slowed our ascent...

As Dante/pilgrim approaches the Primum Mobile, the ninth sphere of Paradise, he is verging on a place beyond particulars, beyond the indiv...

. . . out of Norse mythology and archaic names (Danish: solhunde (sun dog), Norwegian: solhund (sun dog), Swedish: solvarg (sun wolf))...

πολλὰ τὰ δεινὰ κοὐδὲν ἀνθρώπου δεινότερον πέλει Many things are singular, none moreso than man Told that the fourth light that ...

E come a lume acuto si disonna   per lo spirto visivo che ricorre   a lo splendor che va di gonna in gonna,    e lo svegliato ciò c...

Our group meets every other week, but our progress in Paradiso has slowed. The cantos of the theological virtues might seem simpler than ...

Paradiso 25 begins se mai . . .  -- if ever . . . - the strange foolishness of the phenomenon is all right there. Does one "need...