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An illustration of the Vellutello’s Divine Comedy (Photos: Liber Antiquus) The purchase of the Vellutello edition was made possible through the generous support of the Charles T. Leibst Libraries ...
The title reveal featured The Weeknd driving through a dark city, foreshadowing turmoil, further underscored by the album cover ... journey depicted in Dante's “Divine Comedy,” inviting ...
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 ...
The poet Dante Aligheri’s “Commedia” — it picked up “Divine” somewhere along the way — may seem ... Mr. Hoffman is an associate editor of the Sun, where he covers politics and culture. He holds a PhD ...
This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Its garden is the poem’s otherworld—based on the ancient geocentric cosmos and Christian eschatology—and its toads are Dante’s ...
Luzzi just published his own translation of a different work by Dante – Vita Nuova. It's a lesser known work, much slimmer and more digestible than The Divine Comedy. It depicts a young Dante ...
His use of the Florentine dialect for works such as “Divine Comedy” helped establish the modern-day standardized Italian language. By writing his poems in the Italian vernacular rather than in Latin, ...
In his final year at Princeton, Fernando Avilés-García tackled 700-year-old literature with an innovative approach: building an artificially intelligent tool to analyze the language of Dante Alighieri ...