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Politics and art are usually thought to be on two different planes, politics is the real world and art is an imaginary world created by the artist but that is completely wrong; Dante’s The Divine Comedy and M […]

“A weeping woman” by  Rembrandt in 1644

As discussed multiple times in class, women were to be seen not heard in the time when Boccaccio wrote The Decameron, but Boccaccio really dismissed that idea in the […]

A potrait of Franseco Petrarch source: https://stock.adobe.com/contributor/289930/georgios-kollidas

Throughout this poem, Petrarca speaks on his many misdeeds and how crushed he is by the weight of those […]

Portrait of Virgil; Unknown artist

Throughout all the various cantos we have read during our exploration of Dante’s Inferno, Virgil has been a recurrent and important figure in Dante’s journey through hell; he […]