A reader sends this lengthy but very, very helpful essay by Peter Kalkavage about Dante’s Paradiso. If you aren’t reading it, or even if you are, this is a great overview of the canticle, and a ...

So, on to Paradise with Dante and Beatrice. This morning I did a word count of the Lenten Purgatorio blogging I did on this site, thanks to the reader who put all my Purgatorio blogs into a single ...

Daniel Fitzpatrick’s new translation of Dante Alighieri’s epic poem, “Paradiso,”is available in three volumes along with illustrations of 100 bronze sculptures — one for each canto in the poem — ...

On April 24th, Samantha Cristoforetti, Italy’s first female astronaut, took time off from her regular duties in the International Space Station to read from the_ _Divine Comedy. She picked the opening ...

DANTE: PARADISO begins tonight, March 17, and runs through April 9, 2016 at the Stone Cottage Theatre (15650 Addison Road, Addison TX 75001). DANTE: PARADISO is the third book of the Divine Comedy, ...

Dante is with Beatrice in the eighth circle, that of the fixed stars. She is gazing upwards, watching for the descent of the Triumph of Christ. Under the meridian, or at noon, the shadows being ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Dante Studies, the official annual of the Dante Society of America, is dedicated to the furtherance of the study of the works of ...