Divina Commedia

Essays; The Divina Commedia from the German of Schelling;

Beacon Lights of History John Lord 1852

Dante, as hath been already intimated, is the hero of his own poem; and the Divina Commedia is the only example of an attempt triumphantly achieved, and placed beyond the reach of scorn or neglect, wherein from beginning to end the author discourses concerning himself individually.

Mrs Shelley Rossetti, Lucy M 1890

Dante, as hath been already intimated, is the hero of his own poem; and the Divina Commedia is the only example of an attempt triumphantly achieved, and placed beyond the reach of scorn or neglect, wherein from beginning to end the author discourses concerning himself individually.

Mrs. Shelley Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti 1868

Lost 'for us, no less than the' Divina Commedia '; -- Goethe's' Faust, 'and Byron's' Cain, 'no less than the' Imitatio Christi. '

Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens John Ruskin 1859

The supreme poet Dante expresses it marvellously in the lines sung by Saint Bernard: “Lady, thou art so great and so powerful, that whoever desires grace yet does not turn to thee, would have his desire fly without wings”Divina Commedia, Paradiso XXXIII, 13-15.

A Most Sublime Prayer 2009

But - leaving aside the failure so far of belief in the tooth fairy to generate martyrdom or the Divina Commedia - the fundamental mistake is to consider belief itself, in its corporate religious context, as more or less exclusively a mental event: an eccentric, 'vagrant' mental event, a virus, to use another analogy that has found some popularity.

Romanes Lecture, Oxford - 'Religious Lives' 2004

Dante's use of my - thology in the Divina Commedia, however, is most original.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JEAN SEZNEC 1968

Dante's Divina Commedia, that great compendium of such traditions, contains a sys - tematic array of many such liturgical and nonliturgical motifs.

MUSIC AS A DIVINE ART REINHOLD HAMMERSTEIN 1968

There is also in existence a copy of the Venice edition of the _Divina Commedia_ (1477), with autograph notes by Bembo.

Notes and Queries, Number 04, November 24, 1849 Various

In 1865 occurred the sixth centenary of Dante's birthday, and the four greatest Italian actors were invited to perform in Silvio Pellico's tragedy of _Francesca di Rimini_, which is founded on an episode in the _Divina Commedia_.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various