Dante Reader

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, ché la diritta via era smarrita.

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Was modern physics born in the Inferno?

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Inferno’s, Canto X: Farinata e Cavalcante. Italian and english.

William Blake, 1824-27.

Guglielmo Giraldi, 1480-82.

Gustave Doré, 1861.

Duilio Cambellotti, undated.

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Virgil, Dante, and Statius beside the flames of the seventh terrace, Canto XXV of Purgatorio. Art by Gustave Doré.

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Dante’s Divine Comedy manga.

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Dante’s Dogs by Alberto Manguel

Angry, greedy, savage, mad, cruel: these are the qualities that Dante seems to see in dogs and applies to the inhabitants of Hell.

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Italy's 700-year-old murder mystery of Dante's warlord patron solved - Telegraph

Renaissance warlord Cangrande della Scala, long thought to have died from disease, was poisoned, scientists claim

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Via R.E. Parish.

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Bernard Buffet, L'enfer de Dante.

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Yan Dargent's Divine Comedy.

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A l’alta fantasia qui mancò possa; ma già volgeva il mio disio e ’l velle, sì come rota ch’igualmente è mossa, l’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.

Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia, Paradiso, Canto XXXIII

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I’ve been reading Dante’s Inferno on my subway ride to work

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Vincenzo Petroncini Gozzini's Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto VII.

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Odilon Redon, Beatrice, 1885.

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Odilon Redon, Dante's Vision, 1914.

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Dante Alighieri, Convivio, Venezia 1521.

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Andrea Pierini, Dante Alighieri reading Divine Comedy in Guido Novello's court, 1850.

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Andrea Pierini, The Meeting of Dante and Beatrice in Purgatory, 1853.