Hints and tips:
...It looks a reasonable bet that Dante will follow in their footsteps....
...“Second place is assured [for Haley],” said Dante Scala, a political-science professor at the University of New Hampshire. “One of the few questions remaining is: can she do better?...
...“He does have to thread a needle,” said Dante Scala, a political-science professor at the University of New Hampshire....
...“The numbers speak for themselves: a lot more Republicans dislike him than like him,” said Dante Scala, a political-science professor at the University of New Hampshire....
...Five original, 1,000-year-old vessels stand tall and proud in the museum’s Viking Ship Hall....
...He also expressed a wish to re-read Dante’s Inferno....
...Hilary Mantel called it “the ultimate edition of Wolf Hall”....
...Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was and is a cultural colossus, a figure to rank alongside Dante and Shakespeare. But he is also a somewhat forbidding figure....
...The room called the “old hall” is not grand and barely a hall. Rather it is a simple space with a window seat, a big fireplace and some hangings — some of Morris’s earliest designs....
...We meet this flamboyant character at the exhibition’s second venue, the 13th-century Museo Nazionale del Bargello’s vast hall....
...You might expect some shared reminiscing between fellow Rock & Roll Hall of Fame members. Instead, Van Zandt felt moved to show his appreciation of one of his music idols in a bizarre fashion....
...The Girolamini library – a vaulted baroque hall, set in the wing of a monastery – was one of these....
...He is the only Scot to appear in Dante’s Inferno, where his reputation as a necromancer won him a posthumous place in the Eighth Circle of Hell, enduring tortures in the company of other distinguished sorcerers...
...James straddled high and low culture, now translating Dante or commenting sensitively on Larkin, now introducing the eccentric verbal stylings of the Cuban novelty singer Margarita Pracatan or candidly lusting...
...Outside the hall, climate change protesters were blocking the traffic. Inside, the audience was getting a light-hearted parable on Earth’s history, ending in a chat with an ancient bacterium....
...The Pre-Raphaelite painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who shared Kelmscott Manor with Morris and his wife Jane, brought a topiary armchair. Was he teasing Morris for his mythical hedging?...
...There were puns and pop culture references, evocations of Goya and Bosch, nods to Kafka, Yeats, Dante and Pound, as well as Keats....
...Yet she thinks she has “the components of a great love story in the context of a grand literary tradition” — the literature of courtly love as pioneered by Petrarch and Dante....
...Employing the physicality that is her trademark, Dante’s chorus of witches — bulked out by dancers and acrobats — indulges in jerky, convulsive movements....
...All the lights in the hall were broken....
...This combination is seldom seen outside concert halls or churches which have perfectly wonderful organs....
...In the 14th century, the poet Dino Frescobaldi recovered the first seven cantos of Dante’s Divine Comedy, abandoned by his friend when forced into exile....
...Liszt’s fearsome Dante Sonata was caressed with much of the same care in a technically impeccable but unusually civilised and musical performance....
...Perhaps not surprisingly for such a renowned Bachian, clarity of textures was more of a priority than luxuriance of melody in the Petrarch Sonnet 123; from this Hewitt moved straight into the tempestuous “Dante...
...It didn’t do much for the sense of momentum and, despite some vibrant playing, this vision of Dante’s inferno never quite ignited....
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