Dante put troubadour / bishop Folquet de Marseille (Folco) in paradise’s third sphere of Venus & lovers. Rahab the prostitute was the brightest star there. … Read the post Dante’s Folquet de Marseille praised Rahab in paradise
Dante, Purgatorio c. 25, cites Summae Deus clementiae, but in its struggle to forgive men’s lust, it’s more closely related to Jacob wrestling at Peniel. … Read the post Dante in ring of lust saw men being purified of their sexual sins
Dante Alighieri and Leonardo da Vinci recognized that the center of a man’s earthly being is his penis and that castration is satanic. … Read the post castration is Satanic: penis at center of man’s earthly being
Why the hell is there ice in Dante’s Inferno? The answer may come from Buddhist meditation. … Read the post ice in the Inferno: Buddhist eschatology in the Divine Comedy
At the core of the world in the Inferno, Dante perceived Satan-Lucifer-Leviathan, Alexander the Great, and eternal death. … Read the post Dante’s eternal death evokes Alexander’s quest for glory