San Antonio College Library

"These interpretive essays on Dante's thought and poetry open to the general reader the vistas explored in that superb work of human spirit, The Divine Comedy. Miss Sayers has alrady translated the cantos on "Hell" and "Purgatory." Intitmate living with a work while translating it has enabled Miss Sayers to write a down-to-eath guide through the intricacies of simile, mataphor and allegory....The author gives a clear-cut understanding, based on Dante's...

Two of Italy's greatest artists are eternally linked, one genius having paid homage to another. Two hundred years after Dante Alighieri wrote The Divine Comedy, Sandro Botticelli illustrated the classic with a series of exquisite drawings crafted at the height of his career. In this program, translator Mark Musa, art historians, clergy, and other experts guide viewers through Botticelli's exquisite portrayal of Dante's Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso,...

In a masterly synthesis of historical and literary analysis, Giuseppe Mazzotta shows how medieval knowledge systems - the cycle of the liberal arts, ethics, politics, and theology - interacted with poetry and elevated the Divine Comedy to a central position in shaping all other forms of discursive knowledge. To trace the circle of Dante's intellectual concerns, Mazzotta examines the structure and aims of medieval encyclopedias especially in the twelfth...