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Category: Dante Alighieri

Dante AlighieriPosted onAugust 28, 2017August 29, 2017

Exploring The Portrait

The Portrait is a poem I’ve wanted to write about for a while now, because writing about things is how I unpack and explore them.…

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Dante AlighieriPosted onAugust 13, 2017August 13, 2017

The Imprisonment of Pia

In 1868, Dante Gabriel Rossetti painted Jane Morris as La Pia de Tolomei.  Pia appears in Canto V  of Purgatorio in the Divine Comedy. Pia’s story is a…

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Dante AlighieriPosted onJune 25, 2017June 25, 2017

Tragic Lovers

Early Death by Elizabeth Siddal Oh grieve not with thy bitter tears The life that passes fast; The gates of heaven will open wide And…

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Dante AlighieriPosted onAugust 31, 2016October 18, 2017

Embracing Dante Alighieri

“In the middle of the journey of our life, I found myself in a dark wood, for the straight path was lost”  So begins Dante’s…

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Dante AlighieriPosted onJune 9, 2015June 4, 2017

The Unrequited Love of Dante and Beatrice

In reality, Dante loved Beatrice from a distance and they had little to no contact with one another. The  real Beatrice Portinari probably never had…

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Dante AlighieriPosted onAugust 26, 2014January 5, 2015

Shades of Dante

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Victorian poet, painter and co-founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, grew up in the shadow of Dante Alighieri.  Although he lived several centuries…

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Dante AlighieriPosted onFebruary 16, 2009January 3, 2015

La Pia de Tolomei

Dante Gabriel Rossetti painted La Pia de Tolomei at the beginning of his affair with Jane Morris, the wife of his friend William Morris. In…

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