Around New Year’s, while our book club was reading Dante’s Divine Comedy, I serendipitously happened across a reference in Douglas Hofstadter’s Le ton beau de Marot (page 125) to a book of poetry by Giuseppe Varaldo titled All’alba Shahrazad andrà ammazzata (“Shahrazad Shall Hang at Dawn”). Hofstadter writes: “In his astonishing tour de force of a book, Varaldo takes roughly fifty classics of Western literature and synopsizes each one in a perfectly constructed classical Italia...| Arthur O’Dwyer
From Alessandro Torri’s preface to the first volume of L’Ottimo Commento as edited by himself and others of the Accademia della Crusca (1827):| Arthur O’Dwyer
D.M. Black’s new translation of Dante’s The Divine Comedy concludes in this volume. Publisher NYRB’s blurb: Paradiso brings The Divine Comedy to a virtuosic and visionary end. This final leg of Dante’s journey from Hell into the presence of God is for many the most memorable stretch of the poem, a musical and mystical interveaving of mind and heart… Continue reading Dante’s Paradiso (Book acquired, some time in July 2025)→| Biblioklept
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Due dimensioni da ricomporre? Questo contributo non nasce da Dante, o meglio nasce da una lettura di Dante che, proprio per la sua distanza e forse per la sua inattualità, finisce per far crescere la consapevolezza della posizione di noi moderni rispetto ad alcune questioni culturali e, direi, pedagogiche. Il nostro tempo ama distinguere ragione […]| La letteratura e noi
Giorgio Bassani, Behind the Door (first published 1964). The Novel of Ferrara, part 4. Translated from the Italian by Jamie McKendrick (Norton, 2018) As in the previous sections of Bassani’s collection of stories and novels set in and around the … Continue reading → The post Giorgio Bassani, Behind the Door appeared first on Tredynas Days.| Tredynas Days
This week on The Literary Life Podcast, Angelina and Thomas are once again joined Dr. Jason Baxter, author of Why Literature Still Matters. In this episode, our hosts sit down with Dr. Baxter for a chat about a wide variety of topics, including teaching the old books, reading poetry to understand it, the delight of| The Literary Life
In the first essay, which Frye subtitled "Historical Criticism", Frye created his categories by looking at the historical development of heroes and themes. In the second essay, Frye will turn to the different contexts in which we interpret symbols. Since Frye spends a lot of time coming up with his| With Both Hands
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In this series of three online lectures, I explore and explain the meaning of Dante’s Inferno, the relationship of Dante and Virgil, and the political allegory of The Inferno. These three lectures combine for just over an hour of commentary and reflection on Dante’s journey through hell and how we, as readers, should understand the […]| Discourses on Minerva
Dantedì: il 25 marzo 2020 è la giornata di Dante. Una giornata nazionale dedicata al viaggio nell’aldilà che il Sommo Poeta intraprese nella Divina Commedia. In attesa del 2021 e dei 700 anni…| LiveRomeguide
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I haven’t been posting much since I’ve been continuing to work on my Dante book that I’ve mentioned before and have resolved to work on it until the end of March at the very least…| Casual Histrionics