A Tour Less Ordinary: The Hidden Poetry of Italy’s Literary Landmarks
By Jessica Monk “Literature is a way to experiment with the world. You can have a story that is rich and detailed and that accurately…
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Doorways into Dante’s World
By Jessica Monk Dante’s Italian epic poem, The Divine Comedy, is a work as rich and populous as a walled medieval city. But though its…
The Tumultuous Relationship Between Dante and the City of Florence
by Rachel McGinnis Dante Alighieri, perhaps one of the greatest poets of the medieval period, was born in 1265 into an affluent Italian family. Having…