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Learning
“To become an able person in any profession, there are three things necessary — nature, study, and practice.” – Aristotle
Sunday
Good morning! ☀️🌇☕️ It’s been a great week here with setting up the new podcast page on the Dante ‘s Comedy website, and eventually it all fell sort of neatly into place: dantescomedy.com/podcast! We’ve also started a new Purgatory series … Continue reading
New week
Good morning! Aim for the day is to write a couple of brief introductions to the Comedy as a whole, and for Vita Nuova on the new website on dantescomedy.com 😊 Happy coffee! ☕️
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Weekly updates!
New post for our beloved Patrons 😍😍😍 is up! https://www.patreon.com/posts/purgatory-46031164
Istituto Michelangelo in Florence!
New contacts are forming in our former home city of Florence! We might join some conversation groups for Italian Literature here this winter 😊 https://www.michelangelo-edu.it
New Essays!
We wrote two essays on the new website yesterday, one about the symbolism of the Eagle in Chapter 9, https://dantescomedy.com/thefirstdream, and one about the nature of Free Will – https://dantescomedy.com/thefreewill. The third Terrace is full of deep philosophy and theology, … Continue reading
The Third Terrace of Purgatory
We’ve just moved up to the third Terrace of Wrath and its balancing virtue, Gentleness! And again it’s fascinating how much has been put behind us as readers – once the Beach, landscape, climbing in Ante-Purgatory, and the first two … Continue reading
Happy Sunday!
New day, and we just finished the weekly Sunday Show for all our supporters on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/posts/sunday-show-new-45750591 We’re also updating our new Dante website, at dantescomedy.com. The aim is to have it both as an introduction to people fully new … Continue reading
New Dante Website!
Today we started a new project with a Dante website, as an introduction for people with little or no knowledge of the Divine Comedy, and with essays about different themes from the books. Visit here! https://dantescomedy.com 😊
Happy New Year!
First post of 2021! Hope you’ve had a wonderful Christmas – we’ve updated the website and going for a bit more blog style again! 😊 Best wishes for a wonderful 2021!! 😊☀️🎉
A Poem of Growth and Rebirth!
As we opened the second Volume of the Comedy this afternoon, the opening verses felt once again breath-taking in their beauty and their immediate shift of atmosphere and outlook towards the sunny and fertile journey through Purgatory: For better waters, … Continue reading
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Weekend Updates!
Goooood morning!!😊🌇☕️☕️ It’s been a great week on many fronts here, both with receiving a super beautiful new paperback of “The Portable Dante” from Penguin – and for many other projects too! Here is the moment of unboxing the book … Continue reading
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Morning Show, August 5th!
Good morning! 🌇☀️☕️ We’re back with a little Morning Show, an indoor-Lyceum as the weather is cold, rainy and stormy today! Main topics today is Dante’s Vita Nuova, the latest video from Mythos & Logos, updates on the Website (especially … Continue reading
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Tagged august, beauty, dante, dreams, DT Sheffler, good life, growing writer, love, morning show, mythos & logos, vita nuova, youth
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Cosmos and Logos
When I was a child I used to tell people that I wanted to be a cosmologist, but they frequently took me to be saying “cosmetologist.” The link between such disparate fields as astrophysics and hairdressing only became clear when … Continue reading
The Seven Councils
In the Orthodox Christian Faith the Seven Ecumenical Councils of the Byzantine period are still of great importance as the foundation for theological debates about the contemporary times. The first Council was held in Nicea in 325 AD, led by … Continue reading