Browsing Tag: Dante

ON MOUNTAIN’S TOP

“Sharpen your sight, Reader: the truth, this time, is covered by a thinning veil, and so, the meaning should be easy to perceive.” —Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Purgatory, Canto VII, lines 19-21.                 “I’m reading it all again,” Ryan shared.  “I finished Vita Nuova and began The Diving Comedy yesterday.  I didn’t sleep well […]

FOR BEATRICE (INSTRUMENTAL)

“             This song is “For Beatrice”—”The Giver of Blessings”—by whom Dante was inspired, and for whom “The Divine Comedy” is devoted.  It is She that leads Dante into Paradise and shows him where Virgil and Reason cannot go.              Until this song, I never came close to expressing a sound in mind through instrument.  […]

HER NAME

          Ryan listened to the conversation never expecting to become a part.            Resting in the college coffee shop, Ryan listened as two English Doctorates—each with their own private, and common, ambition to write the next Great American Novel—debated Dante and the identity of his beloved.  As the often case of most such-dreamers, their minds […]

FOR BEATRICE

            One of my favorite things in reading is when, unknowingly, you stumble into an incredible romance.  It’s not in story you go searching for, but in search for something else, it is revealed and takes you completely by surprise, drawing you in and refusing to let you break away.             Recently, I began reading […]