The St. Austin Review

Sample Article “Dante: Into the Real” by Mary Gerardi Taylor

Many critics, as well as writers of more popular articles, books, and blog posts, had the life-changing experience of being introduced to Dante’s Comedy for the first time as adults, perhaps in a college literature class and usually beginning with the Inferno in one of the recent translations with their abundant scholarly footnotes. My introduction was quite different: first, because it was not to the Inferno; second because it was not within an academic context but rather one suffused by both lived Catholicism and the natural world of God’s creation; and finally because I was four years old. Read more…