Buondì. I’m travelling today, heading up the motorway to London’s Heathrow airport for an evening flight back to Bologna. So I’ll keep this short. I have two things for you this morning: 1.) an exchange of emails with a club member who DOESN’T NEED ‘slow’ or ‘easy’ listening material any longer, and 2.) another canto […]
Archives for August 2019
Thou now beholdest the souls of those whom anger overcame
Buondì. I’ve been feeling a little irate of late, so it’s fitting that today Dante arrives in the circle of ‘Inferno’ reserved for: “the souls of those whom anger overcame” which in Dante’s Italian is “l’anime di color cui vinse l’ira”. Not so hard, that bit, is it? And note – ‘ira’, translated by Longfellow […]
Dante meets Harry Potter!
Buondì. So Dante doesn’t really meet Harry Potter, of course. Though I’m pretty sure he would have done if the chronology had been the other way around, as the author seems prone to name-dropping just about everyone, both contemporaries and historical figures. Good P.R. I suppose. Everyone would have had to buy a copy of […]