Dante Alighieri: All About Love

Dante Alighieri: All About Love
“Dante and Beatrice,” 1906, by Salvatore Postiglione. Beatrice guides Dante through heaven, explains that God’s creations, exiled to earth, long to return to their place of origin. Public Domain
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When the Beatles crooned “All You Need Is Love” in 1967, they coined an anthem for the flower power age, but when Dante Alighieri composed “The Love that moves the sun and the other stars,” he created the theme song of the Renaissance and beyond.

Worldwide celebrations are underway for the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death, the Italian philosopher poet whose early amorous ditties would give way to an epic poem capable of uniting a scattered nation, inspiring generations of artists, and reflecting a universal human story.

Elizabeth Lev
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Elizabeth Lev is an American-born art historian who teaches, lectures, and guides in Rome.
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