Undaunted, he's has dusted himself off, assembled an eleven-piece band and come back to fulfil what he fancifully calls Venus, Cupid, Folly, & Time: 30 Years of the Divine Comedy.

In Roman culture, Cupid was the child of the goddess Venus, popularly known today as the goddess of love, and Mars, the god of war. But for ancient audiences, as myths and texts show, she was really ...