For love of Dante. Angela Alaimo O’Donnell writes, in 39 poems, a charmingly backhanded love letter to the Italian poet. ... For Bang’s slangy but sophisticated translations of Dante’s poem, O’Donnell ...

La Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri translated by David R. Slavitt Harvard, 160 pp., $18.95 The great books of the Western canon rest on the presupposition that all the books contained therein are ...

In the poem’s first canto, Dante learns that he can’t reach God by himself. He needs the help of others to guide him to our common telos.When heavenly mediators are moved by divine love to summon ...

Dante in Love A.N. Wilson Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 386 pp., $28 Reviewed by Benjamin Ivry The singing beauty and power of Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century long poem “Commedia” is such that ...

Dante Alighieri Love Poetry Sexuality and Gender Worship Also in this issue. Christian History magazine was published by Christianity Today from 1982 to 2008. Christian History ...

Dante Alighieri (born Florence 1265, died Ravenna 1321) is, AN Wilson declares, “a modern poet”. This claim is justifiable. Over the past two centuries, Dante’s poetry has replaced the ...

But in transforming the 14th century poem into a mainstream Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 title, developer Visceral Games overlaid a straightforward tale of love lost and a woman in distress upon the ...