For Bang’s slangy but sophisticated translations of Dante’s poem, O’Donnell’s charmingly backhanded love letter can provide an equally transgressive Virgilian guide. Her use of Dante’s famous ...

Himself only too well acquainted with unslakable passion, he used Love’s claim, “Ego Dominus Tuus,” as the title of a poem in which he described Dante in exile as a poet who “set his ...

You're losing the music of the poem." "And – perhaps this will ... It depicts a young Dante falling in love with his muse, Beatrice, who dies in the middle of the book. Sponsor Message "To ...

Thomson goes some way to explaining how Dante, a writer of brief, polished love poems for more than a decade, became architect of a structure embracing hell, purgatory and heaven with himself as ...

In the poem’s culminating vision, Dante’s desire and will are at last “aligned with the sublime harmony of God’s will,” that love which “moves the sun and the other stars.” ...

I’m not alone in my disappointment with Dante’s inaugural poetry. The Italian scholar Robert ... Whether the screen intensifies or diffuses his love for Beatrice is up for debate, but at ...

He believed that human love and divine love are intricately ... That experience is, as such, made part of the poetry; and it is not only so, with Dante, at the beginning, but also when, in his ...

In his section on classical antiquity Scott demonstrates how Dante reinvented sources for his own use, and in the section on poetry he compels new appreciation ... Rubin’s Dante in Love also has its ...