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A reader sends this lengthy but very, very helpful essay by Peter Kalkavage about Dante’s Paradiso. If you aren’t reading it, or even if you are, this is a great overview of the canticle, and ...
Today I bring our study of Dante’s Paradiso to an end. I’m eager to get into Inferno, so I can blog the entire thing before I leave for Florence at the end of the month.Plus, I see diminishing ...
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Caffe Paradiso
A t Caffe Paradiso, the people behind Dante have swapped perfect Negronis in Greenwich Village for perfect espresso in Nolita ...
Consummation of the Paradiso. Beatrice, who has been Dante's guide through the "Paradiso," now leads him to look upon the great white light of Truth absolute.
Florence - In the Hall of Five Hundred at the Palazzo Vecchio – the city hall of Florence – tourists are staring upward, trying to spot the words cerca trova – “seek and you shall find ...
For almost 700 years, Dante’s "Paradiso" has been a tough sell compared with the poet’s trip through hell in "Inferno" and his gritty climb to the top of the world in "Purgatorio." "Paradiso ...
In the midst of a Dante renaissance in America, Chicago’s Istituto Italiano di Cultura invited Benigni to work his mojo here, performing the last canto of Dante’s “Paradiso” at the Chicago ...
Dante’s Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought Toward a Speculative Philosophy of Self-Reflection. William Franke ISBN 9780367714666. Routledge. 364 Pages £120.00 PRESENTATION.