Dante Alighieri

DLS is best-known as a pre-second-world-war detective novelist, particularly as the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. But the financial success she enjoyed from these novels permitted her to turn to other genres...

JOH delivered a lecture entitled Dante and Botticelli before the RuskinSociety of Birmingham.

GD 's work was cosmopolitan. In addition to writers from other European countries like Dante and Cervantes , he illustrated Milton and Coleridge , and did a series of engravings of London for a work...

Her next idea was an exhibition of Dante 's Infernal Regions. Hervieu painted the scenes, and the museum's own wax manipulator, Hiram Powers , created the figures.

Like Dante before him, GB held various public offices in Florence and was sent to other cities on diplomatic business.

GB 's writings began with Filocolo, a retelling of the traditional Floris and Blanchefleur love-story written between 1338 and 1400. Other narratives were Ameto, a pastoral-allegorical novel, Teseida (which contains the story re-used...

JFLW never used her first name, except for inconsequential correspondence. She was probably christened Frances (as was an elder sister who died) and later italianized it. She also developed a rich etymology for her surname...

The Sheffield Register carried two poems (a sonnet and an ode) in September which welcome and praise this volume. The Critical Review, too, welcomed it warmly. It quoted in full the introductory sonnet addressed...

Reflections on her own life are intertwined throughout CB 's journey, as she writes on her childhood experience of Catholicism, and her roles as mother, wife, lover, and Irish woman writer. She deals trenchantly...

Gloria Fromm links The Tunnel with Dante 's Divine Comedy, because it is divided into thirty-three chapters (the number of Dante's cantos), and contains similar repeated phrases, such as the inner circle,the outer...

Gloria Fromm suggests that Interim, like The Tunnel, is influenced by Dante 's Divine Comedy. She observes, for instance, that the swaggering, disreputable Spanish Jew Mendizabal, a devilish but also comic character...

RL sets out to portray Dante and Beatrice's relationship in the context of the social and political conditions that surrounded them, while simultaneously arguing that the Divina Commedia emerged from this real love, this...

This long poem in heroic couplets was inspired by some lines in Dante 's Purgatorio about a woman named Pia (pious) who was born in Siena and died as an offender of some...

She begins with a Dantesque evocation of a mid-life questioning of potential never realised. At this stage, she says, You think of the children you might have had but didn't. When the midwife says, It's...

Her early work and the passages she copied into her mother's commonplace-book show the influence of Tennyson and Wordsworth ; she also acknowledged the impact of Gray and Crabbe , and wrote several poems inspired...