Dantista | PhD Student @UCLA | "Sharpen here, reader, your eyes to the truth, for the veil is now surely so fine that passing within is easy." Purg. 8.19-21
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. Don’t get your big ass boat stuck in the Suez Canal” https://t.co/LeBi4qxxE1
For Dantedì on March 25, the day dedicated to the Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri, a series of events takes place all over Tuscany in honour of the father of the Italian language. #Dante700#Florence#Dantedi2021https://t.co/JVg9kGdlcu
“This post is for you if want to ask what history can tell us about 2020 and come away with hope.” Black Death, COVID, and Why We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and Bad Middle Ages – Ex Urbe https://t.co/WjRKDl2iUL
Resonant with my strongest impressions both of university teaching and new motherhood: “To show mercy is to abandon our agenda, schedule, task list, immediate objective, comfort, even our safety, in order to be with others in their need.” https://t.co/GOfer9uMOq
A timely meditation on the trauma of separation in #Dante ; one who mourned the loss of embracing loved ones 7 centuries before Covid. https://t.co/Oczjq5oSzB
Perhaps our most exciting Canto per canto yet just dropped today: Inferno 1, with Christian Dupont and Joseph Luzzi! Check it out here: https://t.co/1eLOIw1MpR
“In the holy of holies, where religion and poetry are married, stands Dante as high priest and consecrates all modern art to its calling.” -FWJ Schelling #Dante