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Posted on October 11, 2018October 11, 2018

Canto XV, Inferno, illustrated by Gustav Dore

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Posted on July 18, 2018July 18, 2018

Non-Binary Review call for submissions on Dante’s Inferno (deadline 24th Oct 2018)

More info here: NonBinary Review is a quarterly digital literary journal that joins poetry, fiction, essays, and art around each issue’s theme. We invite  authors to explore each theme in…

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Posted on April 1, 2018April 2, 2018

Only love can break your heart. Only love can save you. Only love can damn you. Neil Young, Dante, Purgatorio, the power of love.

I first discovered Neil Young’s “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” via St Etienne’s version. If a “standard” can be defined as a song whose essence and meaning transcend the…

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Posted on March 4, 2018March 4, 2018

Virgil and Dante, together again

Original here A sequel, of sorts, to their earlier work together. Or as one might add:

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Posted on February 28, 2018February 28, 2018

“Where will and power are one” : Dantean Memes

In Inferno, Dante is accompanied by the soul of the poet Virgil. Virgil, amongst other things, has to warn off the various guardians of the underworld to leave the still-living…

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