Dante Alighieri

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...

Scholar David Fairer has identified JW 's contribution, from its style, as Adventurer no. 87. This essay, later entitled Politeness a necessary auxiliary to knowledge and virtue, is in fact an entertaining piece...

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

AS published Dante for Beginners. A Sketch of the "Divina Commedia" with Translations, Biographical and Critical Notices, and Illustrations.

One month before writing this poem Elizabeth Smith met Mary Hunt , with whom she was soon maintaining a scholarly correspondence. In the earliest letter which Bowdler prints (written on 7 July 1792), Smith touches...

AR 's earliest translations were from Italian, of Dante and Eugenio Montale . She first thought of translating a libretto for performance when she was asked to do so by Jane Glover , who later...

Although her daughter says that her interest in literature (like that in science) came much later than her childhood enthusiasms for drawing, calligraphy, and scholarship, Margaret Scott (later MG ) at seventeen so admired Dante

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

Though the essays were solicited and overseen by Joyce , SB did much of the editorial work and designed the cover. Contributions included Samuel Beckett 's Dante . . . Bruno , Vico ...

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

VSW followed her Behn biography two years later with Andrew Marvell, to open Faber and Faber 's series The Poets on the Poets (in which the second volume was provided by Eliot writing on Dante ).

Two months later he reported it as attracting much favourable attention when hung at the Portland Gallery , while AMH 's mother wrote that it was immediately sold, and brought in two commissions. One...

DLS published the first of her three-part translation of Dante 's Divine Comedy into English verse: Cantica I: Hell.

LV 's English translation appeared of her husband 's two-volume work The Two First Centuries of Florentine History: the Republic and Parties in the Time of Dante.

DLS published the second instalment of her verse translation (with her introduction) of Dante 's Divine Comedy: Cantica II: Purgatory.