Movement of Angels: “the Teaching that is Hidden here/ beneath the Veil of Verses so Obscure”?
Twice in the Divine Comedy Dante urges readers to pay special attention to what is about to happen, in two tercets which interrupt the flow of the story; their function is to advise readers that very soon they will be
Avarice and Usury: towards a Hypothesis about the ‘Greyhound’
For seven centuries, Dante exegetes have offered opinions about the prophetic figure of the hunting hound in Inferno I, ll. 101-102, who will free mankind from the ‘she-wolf’ that symbolizes greed. All one has to do is look at the
Secrete Organic ‘Humors’ in Dante’s Inferno
In many places in Dante’s hell, the condemned souls are still able to secrete organic ‘humors’ just as their body had done during their life on earth. With the exception of blood, these are essentially ‘vile,’ putrid humors that are
Saint Francis vs. Aristotle: An Uneven Fight
Dante himself stated that the canticle of hell was meant to strike terror into the hearts of men, in his letter to Cangrande della Scala. He describes so minutely the punishment and pain that the condemned souls suffer in the