Dante Alighieri

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...

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...

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

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 ).

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 .

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...

This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen of a great German contemporary of Austen:...

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...

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...

This satirical and often surreal novel is set at a summer school designed simultaneously to improve the figure and the mind through diet and creative writing: the Better Body Through the Arts Course. The story...

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...

The most highly-regarded piece in this collection is Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets (whose title means that it has as many poems as a sonnet has of lines). CR 's preface to this sequence...

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...