Mankind is engaged in a continual conversation with tradition - Hans-Georg Gadamer. Part of the work of the Commedia lies in its inte...

To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. - H. Bergson Paradis...

The last canto before the Empyrian presents artistic as well as interpretive challenges. Paradiso 29 opens in a heightened moment, right b...

What madnesse is it (quoth she) to prefer the heavenly rout   Of whome ye doe but heare, to such as daily are in sight?   Or why should...

(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))...