![]() Generally remembered for his journey through the spiritual cosmos, it is less well-known today that Dante is the author of a great love story. In an age where the great men and women of the past are often forgotten, we can say with joy that Dante is still, centuries later, one of the bright lights of the West. 135 quartet.” His writing contains the kind of alluring beauty that draws us out of this world to gaze, like Dante himself did, into the highest heavens. ![]() To repurpose the words of Roger Kimball, Dante’s writing is “the fruit of a confident mastery, like The Tempest or Beethoven’s Op. His magnum opus, The Divine Comedy, is considered one of the crowning achievements of humanity, a masterpiece that reveals something significant to us about the nature of reality and what it means to be human. It is well-known that Dante is one of the greatest poets in Western Civilization. ![]() ![]() If the “Vita Nuova” had been the only major work Dante had made, this work alone would have earned him the reputation as a great poet of Western Civilization. ![]()
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