It's no surprise, then, that many of the best animated shows also have some of the best voice acting. This is not only thanks to the talent of the actors, but the amazing voice directors who guide ...

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 ...

It is based on Dante's book about his beloved Beatrice, and is by a composer also new to America, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari. This composer, whose father was German and whose mother was Italian, was ...

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.

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.

In contemplating Beatrice, he no longer dwells on youthful passions, but contemplates divine and spiritual Love, and the very nature of God. I have frequently passed Santa Margherita dei Cerchi on ...

In Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century Divine Comedy, the narrator—in effect, Dante himself—is led through hell, purgatory, and finally to heaven on a journey that illuminates the meaning of life ...

A cleric whom Dante knew and tested at Florence is described as “exiled from the Arno to the Bacchiglione, where he left the distended nerves he had defiled.” The reference is opaque, but the ...

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 ...

Is Milena Kafka’s Beatrice? In some ways, yes. But unlike Dante’s guide to divine enlightenment, Milena grounded Kafka, sharing with him her zest for life.

He explained the theme of the opera: “Dante first met Beatrice when he was nine years of age. He falls in love with her with all his heart and devotes himself to the art of poetry and while still a ...