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 a ...

I have to confess something: yesterday, I left the power cord for my laptop at my kids’ math tutorial place in Baton Rouge. It was closed today, and my laptop is dead. I’ve been blogging today from my ...

Daniel Fitzpatrick’s new translation of Dante Alighieri’s epic poem, “Paradiso,”is available in three volumes along with illustrations of 100 bronze sculptures — one for each canto in the poem — ...

The structure of Dante's Paradiso is a mediating sign of "the love that moves the sun and the other stars." Each time Dante the pilgrim moves to a higher sphere, his visionary power grows, passing ...

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," which ...

On April 24th, Samantha Cristoforetti, Italy’s first female astronaut, took time off from her regular duties in the International Space Station to read from the_ _Divine Comedy. She picked the opening ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Dante Studies, the official annual of the Dante Society of America, is dedicated to the furtherance of the study of the works of ...

"Paradiso, Act III of the Drama of the Soul" was the subject of Bishop William Boyd Carpenter's fifth lecture, under the William Belden Noble foundation, on "Dame's Verdict of Life," delivered in New ...

When actor/director Roberto Benigni performed the last canto of Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy” on Italian television last year — nearly 30 percent of the country watched, and Dante’s books flew off ...