In early times, the winning side in theological struggles customarily commanded the utter destruction of most of the ...

Some California state workers have spent decades banking unused vacation time. And when they retire, those hours can turn into six-figure or even seven-figure payouts. A new Los Angeles Times ...

At the heart of the cosmos: Edward Gardner conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Mahler's Eighth SymphonyAll images by Mark Allan Andrew Staples, seemingly transformed from radiant one-time ...

Although the poet’s parents never appear in his works, Dante mentions in the Paradiso an ancestor ... especially the Book of Revelation and St. Paul’s Second Epistle to the Corinthians.

Now that we have poems available for free on the internet, as well as seemingly countless poets to choose from, it can be challenging to find truly good poetry books. That’s why we’ve talked ...

Dante deeply resented his exile and plotted for years to get home. His bitterness found vent in Canto XVII of Paradiso: Dante Alighieri was born in Florence around 1265. His was an important ...

So that it will be worthy of salvation. The challenge to approaching a translation of Dante's original Italian this way is that it means you can't concentrate on three lines at a time – you have ...

The story centers on Ricky Valentine, leader of a crew of arms dealers who comes to Paradiso to make a deal with a cartel that will give him unrivaled control of black market trade in the colonies.

The speaker is the Roman poet Virgil, Dante’s companion and guide, in scaling the lofty mountain of Purgatory in the second book of Dante’s tour-de-force account of the afterlife, The Divine ...

The systematic theologian and Great Books professor will ... like a little version of the Paradiso,” said Martin of the annual event, referencing the famed poet Dante’s depiction of heaven ...