<b>A brilliant new translation of the centerpiece of <i>The Divine Comedy</i></b><br><br>Purgatory, the mountain that straightens souls made crooked by the world, is Dante’s single most conceptually brilliant creation. Anthony Esolen’s vivid and innovative new rendering unearths Dante ...
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De vulgari eloquentia, written by Dante in the early years of the fourteenth century, is the only known work of medieval literary theory to have been produced by a practicing poet, and the first to assert the intrinsic superiority of living, vernacular languages over Latin. Steven Botterill here off ...
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<p>‘I have been in the Heaven that takes up most of his light, and saw things there that those who descend from that height cannot speak of or forget...’<p> <p>Led by his guide Beatrice, Dante leaves the Earth behind and soars tough the heavenly spheres of Paradise. In this third and final part of T ...
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