Dante Alighieri

EAP says she was captivated by the chivalrous and romantic spirit which breathes from every page of . . . history. She uses couplets, unadorned and yet Popeian . The long scholarly footnotes...

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...

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...

The publisher's blurb, talking about a new independent spirit at work and humour, the last weapon against despair, was remarkably percipient. Like Beckett's other early prose works in English, these stories are deeply Joycean

EU celebrates the life of this singer, poet, lawyer, and mystic as one marked by extraordinary (Catholic ) spiritual awareness, though his texts have not been officially adopted by the Church: Called, like Dante

Here she retains her focus on history and on women's lives. The relation between the two is paradoxical. Mise Eire (meaning I am Ireland) opens: I won't go back to it. Yet in...

Back in Italy after the end of the First World War, VL continued to read widely. She returned to Dante , Shakespeare , and Goethe . She introduced herself to newer writings on philosophy, science...

At the age of eight Petrarch saw Dante for the first and only time. One of the most important friendships of his life was that with Boccaccio .

Thomas Adolphus writes in his autobiography of his and his siblings' positive experiences with their mother: [a]ll our happiest hours were spent with her; and to any one of us a tête-à-tête with her was...

CR 's sister Maria was three years her senior and the bond between them was close. She became a governess and an author of textbooks (Exercises in Idiomatic Italian through Literal Translation from the...

AW 's maternal grandfather, Joseph Hume , was a translator of Dante , and a friend of Charles Lamb , William Hazlitt , and William Godwin .

Anna was with Valeriya Tyulpanova , a neighbour and a life-long friend; Nikolay was with his brother Dmitry. Nikolay fell madly in love with the young poetess, but she apparently did not share his romantic...

His father, named Petracco or Petraccolo, had been a clerk of the court in Florence before being expelled by the party of the Black Guelphs (who also expelled Dante ).

At first a private tutor of Italian, Gabriele gained some prestige but no direct financial advantage when he was appointed Professor of Italian at King's College (founded in August 1829). He was also a...

The education of JOH (then Pearl Richards) began with an English governess at the family's London home. In her teens she made full use of the educational and cultural resources of the capital. Annie S...