Guy Raffa, “Longfellow’s Great Liberators: Abraham Lincoln and Dante Alighieri” (2016)
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“Living with Dante’s vision of the afterlife also gave Longfellow some perspective on the war. On May 8, 1862, soon after translating Paradiso, he reflected, ‘Of the civil war I say only this. It is not a revolution, but a Catalinian conspiracy. It is Slavery against Freedom; the north against the southern pestilence.’ The reality of this moral disease hit home when he visited a local jeweler’s shop. There he saw ‘a slave’s collar of iron, with an iron tongue as large as a spoon, to go into the mouth.’ ‘Every drop of blood in me quivered,’ he wrote, ‘the world forgets what Slavery really is!’ ”
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Guy Raffa, Not Even Past, January 18, 2016
DivineDotComedy Translation and Commentary for Smartphones
“Encore Dante” (2016 – ), A modern day adaptation of Dante’s Inferno
“In her youth, the author labored as an au pair for a Parisian family. Like most life-altering experiences, the work was brief but intense. Now, after decades of therapy, the author descends again to the depths of hell to describe for readers what awaits there.”
Anticipated schedule for posting chapters of Encore Dante:
- Prologue: Posted
- Chapter 1: Week of February 6, 2017
- Chapter 2: Week of February 20, 2017
- Chapter 3: Week of March 6, 2017
- Chapter 4: Week of March 20, 2017
- Chapter 5: Week of April 3, 2017
- Chapter 6: Week of April 17, 2017
- Chapter 7: Week of May 1, 2017
- Chapter 8: Week of May 15, 2017
- Chapter 9: Week of May 29, 2017
- Chapter 10: Week of June 12, 2017
- Epilogue: Week of June 26, 2017
Midtown NY Election Party Hell
“The Crossroads of the World will be turned into the Seventh Circle of Hell on election night when Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump host dueling ‘victory’ parties about 20 blocks from each other.
“He’ll spend the last night of this ugly campaign at the Hilton on Sixth Ave. She’ll be at the Javits Center. You’ll be stuck at the corner of W. 46th and Deliverance.
“Even under the best circumstances, Midtown Manhattan is New York’s no-fly zone, the place where no real person goes unless he has tickets to a play or somehow ended up leading out-of-town relatives through the biggest tourist trap this side of Patpong Road.” [. . .] –Gersh Kuntzman, New York Daily News, November 4, 2016
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