He composed “The Divine Comedy”—beginning in a dark ... and “son of grace,” as he is called in “Paradiso.” —Mr. Smith teaches Dante at Hillsdale College. Dante: Inferno to Paradise ...

A reader sends this lengthy but very, very helpful essay by Peter Kalkavage about Dante’s Paradiso ... in the Comedy. It is the permeation of the universe by divine intelligence and love.

In Canto XVIII of Paradiso, Dante sees thirty-five letters of Scripture - LOVE ... intensive reading of this extraordinary passage at the heart of the third canticle of the Divine Comedy. While ...

Spanning the years from the early 1280s until about 1308, this collection of poems contains Dante's ... of The Divine Comedy, this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to ...

Today I bring our study of Dante’s Paradiso to an end ... and in so doing take our place in the divine order, for “in His will is our peace.” St. Bernard identifies the Biblical Ruth ...

Singleton's translation of The Divine Comedy, this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the Paradiso. This volume consists ... he needs to read and ...

We do the poor souls a great kindness by our prayers and pious acts to help speed them on their journey to Paradise.

A cold, dark November night was imbued with warmth and exuberance during Italian Medieval Night, part of Downtown ...

In this book, Rachel Teubner offers an exploration of humility in Dante's Divine Comedy, arguing that the poem is an ascetical exercise concerned with training its author gradually in the practice of ...

Dante refers to him with veneration in Paradiso, Canto X ... prefigures Dante’s angelic guide Beatrice in the Divine Comedy. The goddess Fortune and her ever-revolving wheel - one of the ...

Valenzuela became a baseball vagabond and “learned how hard is the road / going down and then up another man’s stairs,” as Dante is told in The Divine Comedy when his ancestor Cacciaguida ...