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 […]
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 […]
This post does a really great job of explaining the figurative language Petrarch uses in canzone 189 by breaking down each metaphor and explaining what he meant as well as using photos that make it easy to create […]
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 […]