In honor of re-reading Dante’s Inferno this quarantine with a friend and then moving on to (finally) read Purgatorio & Paradiso I went back looking at…
03. Early Europe & Colonial Americas• Art & Humanities
Dante’s Inferno: “There Are Worse Things I Could Do” (Circle 8)
June 22, 2020In honor of re-reading Dante’s Inferno this quarantine with a friend and then moving on to (finally) read Purgatorio & Paradiso I went back looking at…
03. Early Europe & Colonial Americas• Art & Humanities
Dante’s Inferno: “Minotaurs, Centaurs, and Harpies, Oh My!” (Circle 7)
June 15, 2020In honor of re-reading Dante’s Inferno this quarantine with a friend and then moving on to (finally) read Purgatorio & Paradiso I went back looking at…
03. Early Europe & Colonial Americas• Art & Humanities
Pestilence & Prayer: Vita of Sts. Cosmas & Damian (11)
June 8, 2020See previous thesis blog post: Pestilence & Prayer: St. Christopher in Art (10) Sts. Cosmas and Damian were successful brother-physicians and thus they have an apparent…
03. Early Europe & Colonial Americas• Art & Humanities
Dante’s Inferno: “Love, that excuses no one loved from loving.” (Circle 2)
June 8, 2020In honor of re-reading Dante’s Inferno this quarantine with a friend and then moving on to (finally) read Purgatorio & Paradiso I went back looking at…
03. Early Europe & Colonial Americas• Art & Humanities• Christianity• Religion
Pestilence & Prayer: St. Christopher in Art (10)
May 22, 2020There are two important criteria that make St. Christopher a “second-tier” plague saint: arrows from his martyrdom and a popular inscription. As seen in his Vita,…