Dante Alighieri

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...

Her further translations included many poems which were printed in her own volumes of verse, as well as selections from Charles of Orleans and Gaspara Stampa , Literature in the Vernacular (a rendering of Dante

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...

Bruno's conversion from Catholicism to Pantheism is described in a sexual analogy: Night after night he would steal out, moved by the same thoughts, penetrated by the same rapture . . . The more ardently...

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 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 .

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...

MO published The Makers of Florence: Dante , Giotto , Savonarola ; and Their City.

MO 's Dante appeared as the first of Blackwood 's Foreign Classics for English Readers, a monograph series of which she was editor.

This novel is set in a villa in Tuscany, which is known for having been the setting for a sixteenth-century (published) dialogue on love. At the present moment of history a comparable dialogue is...

Meanwhile KN read for herself outside the syllabus while she was at Oxford, particularly Dante and French literature, and composed intellectual biographies of philosophers like Hume and Kant .

She shared a tombstone with her sister Anne , to which she had added a line from Dante 's Purgatorio, translated as Cast down the seed of weeping and attend. The local paper...

Although FMM 's father was, for the most part, more concerned with her fragile health than her academic development, the twin sisters received some home-schooling from their mother to quite a high level, since she...

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 novel relates the love between Dante Alighieri , scholar and poet, and the aristocrat Beatrice Portinari , and the way her early death inspired his work, particularly the Divina Commedia. The political and...