Homage to Dante (1321-2021)
The new issue of the St. Austin Review will be winging its way to subscribers next week. Highlights of this issue, which pays homage to Dante on the 700th anniversary of his death, include:
Sculptor Timothy Schmalz enfleshes The Divine Comedy in bronze, his work illustrating the whole issue.
James Sale gives “three reasons for celebrating The Divine Comedy, and one more”.
Christina Colombo sees The Divine Comedy as “a purifying love story”.
Mary Gerardi Taylor accompanies Dante “into the real”.
Fr. Paul Pearson perceives Dante’s Purgatorio as “a message for the messy”.
Jason M. Baxter considers Dante’s Ulysses to be “the failed mystic”.
Donna Spivey Ellington grapples with Dante’s engagement with “the two swords” of Catholic political philosophy.
Daniel Fitzpatrick contemplates “Dante, Sartre and the strange case of human nature”.
Patrick Murtha waxes lyrical on Henry Holiday’s painting of Dante and Beatrice.
Ken Woodington offers “suggestions of a non-scholar on how to read Dante’s Divine Comedy”.
Manuel Alfonseca asks, “Did Dante anticipate Einstein?”
Donald DeMarco hearkens to “a word from Dante”.
William Fahey ponders “Dante and the wandering student”.
Susan Treacy connects “Dante and Liszt”.
Elizabeth Pham says “yes to the dress”.
John Beaumont couples “conversion and adversity”.
Bradley J. Birzer finds “Logos and Mythos” to be “palate cleansers for the culture”.
Fr. Benedict Kiely laments those who are “putting a leash on the Gospel”.
- V. Turley remembers “Rosemary’s Babyand the tragedy of Sharon Tate”.
Plus new poetry by Pavel Chichikov, J. M. Jordan and Stanislaw Srokowski.
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