In a 1993 lecture on the authenticity of Dante’s letter to Can Grande della Scala (see “A Polysemantic Country Song?), Princeton Danteist Robert Hollander noted, “As far as Dante studies are concerned ...

As has been announced in the Calendar, Professor Charles Eliot Norton will give a course of six lectures on Dante, in Sanders Theatre. The subjects of the lectures, with the dates, are given below: I.

Senior Lecturer, Chair, The Department of Writing Studies, University of Sydney So warns the inscription on the gates of the inferno, the first realm of Dante Alighieri’s celebrated work, now known as ...

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The American modernist Marianne Moore once wrote that poems are imaginary gardens with real toads in them. This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Its garden is the poem’s otherworld—based on ...

A series of five one-hour lectures in Maltese by Alfred Palma on Dante and the Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia) for post-secondary students will be held at Żabbar Sanctuary Museum starting on April 18 ...

So that it will be worthy of salvation. The challenge to approaching a translation of Dante's original Italian this way is that it means you can't concentrate on three lines at a time – you have to ...

To mark 700 years since the death of medieval poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri, Italy is celebrating throughout 2021 with a vast program including free and online resources. Dante Alighieri, a ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In preparation for the 700 th anniversary of the death of medieval poet Dante Alighieri, a Canadian artist is creating a sculptural tribute to his “Divine Comedy” that would be ...

Dante Alighieri is one of the pillars of Western literature. And his texts have been translated into English dozens of times. With two new... There's a new translation of Dante's 'The Divine Comedy.' ...

Going to hell is usually a tough break. But the poet Michael Palma doesn't seem to mind. So that it will be worthy of salvation. The challenge to approaching a translation of Dante's original Italian ...