“Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.”
— Dante Alighieri
Seen at the Substack of Philosophors. Though I have long known these lines, I think I have just found the most informative explanation in Prue Shaw's Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity.
Geoffrey Chaucer, the first poet to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey, died on this day in 1400. pic.twitter.com/IKJESMzsIr
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Now exactly halfway through Purgatorio. Maybe a rereading of Canterbury Tales will help me understand why I remember Chaucer so fondly and why Dante leaves me so cold.
Galileo Galilei's handwritten notes on Dante's "Divine Comedy", 16th c
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“Passion is the genesis of genius.”
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