Hints and tips:
...Once sufficiently unwound, I’ll visit my tailor, P Johnson, on West Broadway, who have been making my suits for almost 10 years....
...The flowers look like they have been tossed into the air, or onto a stage at a Maria Callas performance,” says Johnson Hartig, founder and creative director of the fashion label Libertine....
...Boris Johnson, then an assistant editor at the paper, rang him for his views, “which I gave somewhat forcibly”, Squires recalled....
...Virgil and Euripides made the case for her execution; Ovid and Dante damned her to hell....
...The square bar at The Grill, the current steward of Johnson’s space, would be a magical place to drink a glass of water....
...This prescient 14th-century genius had foreseen Boris Johnson, Andrew Tate and almost any other contemporary sinner. But even he would have had to dig down to extend....
...Dante drew on Virgil, Karl Marx on Aristotle....
...Dante’s Divine Comedy (Penguin, £16) is read in Robin Kirkpatrick’s acclaimed translation, with Kirkpatrick himself taking the role of Virgil, who guides Dante through hell and purgatory before handing over...
...Kamm turns to Keats, Samuel Johnson and Emily Dickinson....
...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...
...Dante Staciokas, a driver relations manager for a Pennsylvania-based carrier, says the job began to change in the 1980s, when the industry was deregulated....
...“Cimabue thought to hold the field in painting, and now the clamour is all for Giotto,” Dante wrote in The Divine Comedy (1320)....
...Mr Brende is meeting his UK counterpart, Boris Johnson, as well as the Brexit secretary, David Davis, and the international trade secretary, Liam Fox....
...So Blake remains a paradox of a radical reactionary, his vision still pertinent: his final project illustrating Dante responds not just to The Divine Comedy’s extreme, dynamic imagery but also to Dante’s...
...About the succeeding Burning, made by Martin Lawrance as a response to Liszt’s Dante Sonata, I have every reservation....
...A man who has not been to Italy is always conscious of an inferiority from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see,” declared Samuel Johnson in 1776....
...You have to go back to someone like Samuel Johnson to find a mind as capacious and engaged and humane as that of Clive. His work will be around when we are all dust.”...
...Apart from the illustrations, in outline only, for Dante’s Divine Comedy, only 12 are known to survive....
...Even if you imagine that your candle of faith has been passed down the generations exclusively by those you admire — from Dante to Chaucer, or from Dr Johnson to Christina Rossetti — you might still find...
...Profoundly admired by writers as different as Petrarch and Voltaire, Pope and Johnson, Goethe and Nietzsche, Horace had ended up caricatured as a sort of smiling English squire....
...Includes his accessible fragments of Dante’s Inferno. Natalie Whittle …………………………………………………………….....
...AN Wilson’s most recent book is ‘Dante in Love’ (Atlantic)...
...The irony of the Cinquecento’s transformation from a utilitarian means of getting a poor country moving to the hip accessory of America’s rich and famous would not have been lost on the late Dante Giacosa...
...“He’s given us an overwhelming sense of hope,” said Dante Gibson, a 50-year-old air conditioning contractor, after the Cobb County rally. “It’s like we’re walking round with halos around us.”...
...To Ms Johnson, 45, a supermarket worker, “they” seems to refer to the Bush administration and white America, as if the two are interchangeable....
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