Doorways into Dante’s World

Amanda September 17, 2013

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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 complexity invites exploration, the fortifications of its formal structure can seem intimidating. So how do you gain access to the teeming city of this work? There is no need to “abandon all hope” as you pass beneath the inscription that heralds the entrance to Inferno. Scolastica Tours offers a side-door into Dante’s world by tackling the poem through a secondary text: Martha Nussbaum’s Poetic Justice on their upcoming "Italian Exile: Dante's Inferno and Early...

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Italian Exile: Dante’s Inferno and Early Renaissance Justice

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Amanda September 23, 2013

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A Tour Less Ordinary: The Hidden Poetry of Italy’s Literary Landmarks

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Beethoven in Vienna

Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, and Brahms (among others) are symbolized in Vienna not only with monuments but also with museums (two, in Schubert’s case: his birthplace, and the house in which he died), but it is Beethoven who is represented most. With several museums devoted to him, some of which contain his own personal effects, there exist in and around Vienna more sites associated with Beethoven than with any other composer who graced the city.

Carly Cassano August 1, 1998

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