Dante Alighieri

His father, named Petracco or Petraccolo, had been a clerk of the court in Florence before being expelled by the party of the Black Guelphs (who also expelled Dante ).

At first a private tutor of Italian, Gabriele gained some prestige but no direct financial advantage when he was appointed Professor of Italian at King's College (founded in August 1829). He was also a...

Thomas Adolphus writes in his autobiography of his and his siblings' positive experiences with their mother: [a]ll our happiest hours were spent with her; and to any one of us a tête-à-tête with her was...

CR 's sister Maria was three years her senior and the bond between them was close. She became a governess and an author of textbooks (Exercises in Idiomatic Italian through Literal Translation from the...

Back in Italy after the end of the First World War, VL continued to read widely. She returned to Dante , Shakespeare , and Goethe . She introduced herself to newer writings on philosophy, science...

At the age of eight Petrarch saw Dante for the first and only time. One of the most important friendships of his life was that with Boccaccio .

Gloria Fromm links The Tunnel with Dante 's Divine Comedy, because it is divided into thirty-three chapters (the number of Dante's cantos), and contains similar repeated phrases, such as the inner circle,the outer...

Gloria Fromm suggests that Interim, like The Tunnel, is influenced by Dante 's Divine Comedy. She observes, for instance, that the swaggering, disreputable Spanish Jew Mendizabal, a devilish but also comic character...

EAP says she was captivated by the chivalrous and romantic spirit which breathes from every page of . . . history. She uses couplets, unadorned and yet Popeian . The long scholarly footnotes...

RL sets out to portray Dante and Beatrice's relationship in the context of the social and political conditions that surrounded them, while simultaneously arguing that the Divina Commedia emerged from this real love, this...

She begins with a Dantesque evocation of a mid-life questioning of potential never realised. At this stage, she says, You think of the children you might have had but didn't. When the midwife says, It's...

The publisher's blurb, talking about a new independent spirit at work and humour, the last weapon against despair, was remarkably percipient. Like Beckett's other early prose works in English, these stories are deeply Joycean

EU celebrates the life of this singer, poet, lawyer, and mystic as one marked by extraordinary (Catholic ) spiritual awareness, though his texts have not been officially adopted by the Church: Called, like Dante

Here she retains her focus on history and on women's lives. The relation between the two is paradoxical. Mise Eire (meaning I am Ireland) opens: I won't go back to it. Yet in...

This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen of a great German contemporary of Austen:...