VI / III. THE FRANCISCANS AND DANTE
The Dante Center of Ravenna
Let us return to Ravenna, where the friars, after being forced to leave in 1810, were welcomed back in February...
VI/II. THE FRANCISCANS AND DANTE
Readings, Commentaries and Depictions
The “custody” of Dante by the Franciscans was about more than the preservation of his bones, which, all in all, remain...
VI / I. THE FRANCISCANS AND DANTE
The Story of the Bones
Writing about Dante’s death in Ravenna, Boccaccio said in his Trattatello in laude di Dante, that it occurred “on the...
V. DANTE, SAINT FRANCIS AND THE FRANCISCANS
Little or nothing is known of Dante’s relationship with the Franciscans during his life. Dante was born in Florence in 1265 and died in...
IV/III. The Divine Comedy: PARADISO*
In dedicating Paradiso to Cangrande della Scala, Dante calls his last work “the sublime canticle which is adorned with the title of Paradise.” As...
IV/II. THE DIVINE COMEDY: Purgatorio
Purgatorio
The second canto of the poem takes the reader to a new world, where hope follows despair and sunlight follows darkness. As though...
IV/I. THE DIVINE COMEDY
INFERNO
The Christian’s journey into the realms of the afterlife was not a new story in literature. However, Dante's underworld was something completely...
III. The Work
Dante is universally known as the author of The Divine Comedy and he is also an “actor” in it. He wrote other works, but...
II. The Character
“Dante Alighieri, the Florentine poet who lived between the 13th and 14th centuries, is the greatest poet of medieval Europe and one of the...
I. The reasons for celebrating a Centenary
INTRODUCTION
The portico of the Sacred Convent of Assisi overlooks Perugia and the entire Valley of Spoleto. It is a place so dear to us...