Medieval History
Yeats said no face was more familiar to Western civilisation than Dante's, apart from that of Christ. Dante Alighieri is the greatest poet of Italy and he is also the one figure of the late medieval-renaissance period who bears comparison with the greatest visual artists: Giotto, Michelangelo and Titian.
Though there is only one Dante: Petrarch, the great sonnetier, and Boccacio of The Decameron fame make up the triad but are footnotes to him. Dante, born in Florence in 1265, belongs only with Homer and Shakespeare.
In 1300, according to legend, he had the experience that is recorded in his great three-part poem The Divine Comedy: he found himself in Hell, then Purgatory, then Heaven. The opening lines are inscribed in the DNA of our culture: "Nel mezzo del cammin de nostra vita /mi rotrovai per una selva oscura, /Che la diritta via era smarrita". ("In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost".)
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Medieval History
Book Review: Dante in Love
Though there is only one Dante: Petrarch, the great sonnetier, and Boccacio of The Decameron fame make up the triad but are footnotes to him. Dante, born in Florence in 1265, belongs only with Homer and Shakespeare.
In 1300, according to legend, he had the experience that is recorded in his great three-part poem The Divine Comedy: he found himself in Hell, then Purgatory, then Heaven. The opening lines are inscribed in the DNA of our culture: "Nel mezzo del cammin de nostra vita /mi rotrovai per una selva oscura, /Che la diritta via era smarrita". ("In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost".)
Click here to read this review from The Australian
- God's Philosophers By James Hannam ? Review
In canto XVII of Inferno, Dante anticipated the principle of Galilean invariance 300 years before Galileo. Even earlier, Islamic steelmakers in Damascus unwittingly exploited nanotechnology in the manufacture of sabres that became the envy of the world....
- Dante's Inferno, The Game...
Oh, dude. Electronic Arts (EA) is apparently now producing a game based on Dante's Inferno. Apparently, Dante will travel through Hell's 9 levels in pursuit of his "beloved Beatrice." Oh, but wait, there's more! It'll be an action-adventure...
- Fugelso Reviews Chwast,
Karl Fugelso reviewed Seymour Chwast's Dante's Divine Comedy: A Graphic Adaptation, for medievally speaking....
- 41st Annual Conference Southeastern Medieval Association (sema)
Forty-First Annual ConferenceSoutheastern Medieval AssociationLittle Rock, AR October 22-24, 2015 "Heaven, Hell, and Little Rock" Call for Papers You are cordially invited to participate in the 2015 meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association....
- Dante?s Volume From Alpha To Omega: A Graduate Symposium On The Poet?s Universe
Dante?s Volume from Alpha to Omega: a Graduate Symposium on the Poet?s Universe Yale University, March 26-27, 2010 Keynote Speaker: Prof. Giuseppe Mazzotta (Yale University) Call for Papers On behalf of the Department of Italian Language and Literature,...