Last week I gave my presentation for the CU on the Weekend series on Why the Humanities Matter. The title was: Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, and the Birth of Humanism: Why Civic Engagement and ...

Jamie James is a critic and the author of "The Music of the Spheres." When the Modernist magi T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound laid down the canons of literary taste that still hold sway today, largely ...

Rediscover some of the world’s greatest writers, like Boccaccio, Petrarch and Dante, by visiting the places that inspired them and walking in the footsteps of their characters. Because Tuscany is a ...

For 700 years, Italian language purists have held that if a word cannot be found in Dante’s Divine Comedy, or did not evolve from Dante’s Italian, it isn’t really a word at all. This scruple and ...