“... quirky, archaising versions, Pound favoured the verse of the bellicose Bertran de Born (whom Dante condemned to hell as a fomentor of strife) and the virtuosic Arnaut Daniel (Dante’s miglior fabbro or ‘better craftsman’ – a compliment T.S. Eliot borrowed in dedicating The Waste Land to Pound). Despite moments ...”

“... York’s blithe approach to the historical record, the film’s production design, supervised by Dante Ferretti, has received almost universal acclaim: the sets anchor a flawed story in a convincingly detailed physical world. The now legendary Five Points set constructed in the grounds of the Cinecittà studios in Rome is stunning. For those familiar with ...”

“... in the first place you don’t want to and in the second place she is reading The Waste Land or Dante in the original, or Kafka or Kierkegaard or studying Provençal. She adores music and when the New York Philharmonic is playing Hindemith she can tell you which one of the six bass viols came in a quarter of a beat too late. Khachaturian isn’t let off the ...”

“... worked through universe of thought’ that puts its author on a level with Homer, Plato, Dante and Shakespeare. Turner sees a theological meaning in its incompleteness. Like the world in Thomas’s understanding of it, this finest of all works of theology is shot through with silence. Turner makes much of what one might call the anonymity of ...”

“... of Heaney’s collection of verse: fathers haunt sons, and metaphorical fathers such as Larkin and Dante and Eliot haunt poems. We might recall here Aristotle’s statement that ‘to use metaphor well is to discern similarities’ [to to homoion theōrein], where theōrein means both ‘see’ and ‘analytically get beneath the skin of something’. Seeing ...”

“... a set of keen young readers and writers, girls and boys – they shared around Shakespeare, Plato, Dante, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Hugo, Proust and Yeats as well as Michael Arlen, Clemence Dane, P.G. Wodehouse and G.K. Chesterton. Johnson kept lists of all the books she read (90 in 1931, although she was working full time), with ...”

“... at times as examples of pre-Christian misguidedness about the meaning of death, though even Dante, so quick to condemn his fellow Florentines, saved the suicide Cato from his Inferno and made of him a judge of men. The authors of the histories, speeches and essays that featured such men chose their subjects with care. It is rare to read about the ...”

“... an eye-like expressiveness: ‘when he read of the weeping feet of Nicolas the Third’ – in Dante the feet are in fact burning – ‘he found he already knew there could be weeping feet, that there is a weeping of the whole body, of the whole person, and that every person can bring forth tears.’ In Rodin’s sculpture, expression had left the ...”

“... brand of right-wing Christianity, it was at least an intellectually taxing discourse centred on Dante, Aquinas and Parisian neo-Thomism, rather than the parochial pseudo-religiosity of a Philip Larkin. In the epoch of High Modernism, it was for the most part the radical Right, rather than the liberal or social democratic centre ground, that opened up ...”

“... daughter, Marie, in praise of her stepfather’s recent symphonic poems, especially the Faust and Dante Symphonies. He was impressed, specifically, by the way Liszt had derived the forms of these almost entirely instrumental works not from classical models, but from the subject matter of the works themselves. Wagner made some important distinctions. He ...”

“... the full ‘solaces of love’. It did not matter if either or both had a spouse on the side. Dante’s Beatrice was a Florentine banker’s daughter married to another banker, Simone dei Bardi, while Dante had several children by his wife, Gemma Donati. His earthly relationship with Beatrice never passed beyond the ...”

“... the ninth and 12th centuries, which produced works of literature still read today as Shakespeare, Dante and Dickens are still read, but as a city is also one of the great monuments of Islamic art. In addition, Baghdad is the city in which, along with Cairo and Damascus, the 19th and 20th-century revival of art and literature took place. Baghdad produced at ...”

“... but also through Christian Gauss, the dean of the college, an excellent teacher and renowned Dante scholar. In its extremely conventional make-up as an institution Princeton somehow managed to produce and even lodge occasional independents like Wilson and, shortly after the Second World War, R.P. Blackmur, the most eccentric and brilliant American ...”

“... years. What emerged, in 1988, returned directly to Sayers for its epigraphy, to her translation of Dante; and the closely woven relations of title, epigraphs, motifs and location came brilliantly together in a brooding and far-reaching consideration of loss and darkness. In the pit-village of Burrthorpe, before the strike, a child went missing, her ...”

“... and set their feet on a hard road. We are meant to think, says Shahar, that when Ugolino in Dante admits ‘fasting had more force than grief,’ he means he ate his sons. But some people might have thought he had the right to. Noble fathers were dangerous people, as emerges also from Mary Wack’s Lovesickness in the Middle Ages, another work that ...”