I have always been a sucker for a good love story, so when I was told that J. M. Coetzee — who has been awarded the Nobel ...

Dante and Beatrice never shared a love affair in any modern sense. Their meetings were no more intimate than passing in the street, and both of them married other people.

Dante's Vision. He sees the god of love with Beatrice in his arms and something burning in his hand. This turns out to be Dante's heart, which the god feeds to Beatrice.

Echoing Dante’s characteristic three-line rhyme scheme in a memorable section of his Four Quartets, published during the Second World War, T. S. Eliot imagines himself on dawn patrol during the London ...

F inally, take inspiration from Dante and try mingling romantic love with the divine. ... At these times, I can deeply relate to Dante’s equal passion for Beatrice and for God.

After the death of Beatrice (1290), Dante can offer prose explanations linking the poems. Their ardor follows the “courtly love” mode of French troubadours in the 12th and 13th centuries.

In the “Paradiso” poem, Beatrice says much the same to a dull-witted Dante, who cannot comprehend that love has granted him access to heaven, that love alone makes heaven comprehensible. And ...

LOVE OF DANTE AND BEATRICE IN MUSIC; Wolf-Ferrari's Cantata, "The New Life," Heard Here for the First Time. A WORK OF GREAT CHARM Produced by the New York Oratorical Society at Carnegie Hall ...

Completed just before Dante died in 1321, it consists of three parts—Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Divine Comedy is a long poem recounting the author’s journey among the damned in ...