Tre donne intorno al core by Dante Alighieri
Three courtly ladies gathered round my heart, Seating themselves outside, While Love remained inside, The one whose lordship governs all...
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By Royal Rhodes
- Sep 28, 2023
- 2 min
Hearing Canto V
The spare Italian lesson slipped down along the second ring of grief in the slanted light of that late afternoon, as the 'connoisseur of...
Translation
- Aug 24, 2023
- 4 min
The Last Voyage of Ulysses
Inferno - Canto XXVI Rejoice, oh Florence! You who are so grand that through nations and oceans your fame wings, and in Inferno see your...
Translation
- Jul 18, 2023
- 1 min
A ciascun’alma presa, e gentil core by Dante Alighieri
To every gentle heart true Love may move, And unto whom my words must now be brought For wise interpretation’s tender thought, I greet...
By Louis Markos
- Feb 20, 2023
- 5 min
Dante on Eden
Author’s Introduction: Imagine if Homer, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, and the other great poets of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages...
Translation
- Jan 8, 2023
- 6 min
Le Dolci Rime d’Amor ch’i Solia
The sweeter songs I sang in earlier days Must now be left behind, Along with all my gentler strains of mind, Although they may return,...
Translation
- Jul 5, 2022
- 2 min
Al Poco Giorno e al gran cerchio d'ombra by Dante Alighieri
To the short day and the great arc of shadow I've come, alas, walking over the pale hills Where all the colors have vanished from the...
By Louis Markos
- Nov 1, 2021
- 5 min
Dante: On the Beatific Vision
Author’s Introduction: Imagine if Homer, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, and the other great poets of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages...
By Louis Markos
- Aug 16, 2021
- 5 min
Dante on Freedom
Author’s Introduction: Imagine if Homer, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, and the other great poets of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages...
By Louis Markos
- Jul 9, 2021
- 5 min
Dante: On Lust
Imagine if Dante had been given the gift, not only to peer into the twenty-first century, but to correspond with we who live in that most...
Translation
- Jun 25, 2018
- 5 min
Amor che ne la mente mi ragiona by Dante Alighieri
We present a new installment of original Dante translations. To our knowledge, Dante’s lyric poems have never been presented in a way...
Translation
- Apr 7, 2018
- 4 min
A Late Dante Canzone: Amor, che movi tua vertu da cielo
Oh Love, who takes his power from on high, As the sun does its splendor, So do the rays of your perpetual fire Shine brighter where they...
Translation
- Dec 12, 2017
- 6 min
Dante's Canzone On Grace and Virtue: Poschia ch’amor del tutto m’ha lasciato
Since everything has already been taken, And joy forsaken, When such delight was never known before, Since Love could stand no more To...
Translation
- Oct 15, 2017
- 4 min
The Rime Petrose of Dante Alighieri
Dante wrote a series of Canzoni (songs) entitled the Rime Petrose, the "Stone Rhymes." Here is the first installment of the Stone Rhymes....
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