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
A 14th-century popular story of a hermit’s vision of judgment and punishment parallels the visionary realism of Dante’s highly literary Commedia. … Read the post realism of judgment & punishment in popular 14th-century vision
In Decameron X.9, Boccaccio responded to Dante with vision of true consolation of Lady Philosophy: personally loving, virtuous action in worldly living. … Read the post Dante’s Boethius buried in Boccaccio’s Decameron X.9
Despite his high regard for Dante and Petrarch, Boccaccio with subtle irony used Theophrastus’ Golden Book on Marriage to criticize both. … Read the post Boccaccio criticized Petrarch and Dante with Theophrastus
Boccaccio’s Corbaccio presents the comic reality of heterosexual seduction and love in a humanistic re-conception of Dante’s Vita Nuova. … Read the post Boccaccio’s Corbaccio: comic reality of love as new Vita Nuova