We are nearing the culmination of my course in medieval literature at Thales College, reading Dante’s La Vita Nuova, to be ...

take inspiration from Dante and try mingling romantic love with the divine. If you are religiously inclined, you might seek the love of your life among the community at a house of worship or ...

Says Dante of this vision of the Mystical Rose ... tradition become the canonical expression of both human and divine love, of eros purified and sanctified even to total self-gift for the ...

This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy ... who drew the epigraph to his landmark poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” from a speech in Canto27 of “Inferno” by a ...

Dante’s Commedia (or Divine Comedy, written in the opening decades of the 14th century) is already a heavily and explicitly political text, in which the poet at times exhibits a positively Trumpian ...