Essays on Dante

The Divina commedia has been a source of inspiration in pop culture since Dante’s death in 1321. Several aspects of Dante’s work have been widely incorporated in modern popular culture, whilst some literary decisions he made have been left to the Middle Ages. Dante’s piece...

Throughout Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy, we see frequent inclusion of and reference to pagan and sinful cultural figures. From mythological beasts to great poets, such icons fill this primarily Christian text. In many ways, a parallel can be drawn between their inclusion and the...

The belief in the existence of an afterlife can be dated back to the beginnings of recorded history. It has been extremely common for cultures around the world to believe in some kind of life or existence after death. It was also common for the...

In the readings from the Catholic Intellectual Tradition book; Aquinas, Augustine, and Dante all have claims that human reason and faith are both rely or are compatible with one another. In the story of Augustine, we find out that in his early life he couldn’t...

Dante Rossetti combines two great works to highlight his pre-Raphaelite artistic views, through his poem “The Blessed Damozel”. The pre-Raphaelite brotherhood was a group of painters, poets, and art critics, who seeks to reform the artwork that was being made at Raphael’s time. Rossetti incorporates...