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Dantes Inferno

Galileo's Journey to Hell and Back

Mario Livio | Posted 02.04.2013 | Science
Read More: Alessandro Vellutello, Galileo Galilei, Dante the Divine Comedy, Dante's Inferno, Antonio Manetti, Galileo Inferno, Galileo Inferno Lectures, Science News
Mario Livio

In 1588, shortly before he assumed the position of lecturer in mathematics at Pisa, the 24-year-old Galileo Galilei was invited by the Florentine Academy to present two lectures with an unusual title: "On the Shape, Location, and Size of Dante's Inferno."

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Alzheimer's Journal: Tears for Yesterday

Marie Marley | Posted 11.10.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Caregiving, Dementia, Yesterday, Dante's Inferno, Sorrow, Alzheimer's, Caregiver, Memory Loss, Love, Romanian, Memories, Alois Alzheimer's Center, Fifty News
Marie Marley

It was the first time I'd felt the full force of having lost Ed to Alzheimer's. The first time I'd cried about it. For in all those years, I'd never realized until right then just how much I'd loved Ed -- and loved him still.

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Playa Odyssey

Tamsin Smith | Posted 10.23.2012 | Arts
Read More: Burning Man 2012, Dante's Inferno, Constantine-Cavafy, Burning Man, Aldous Huxley, William Blake, Jim Morrison, John-Milton-Paradise-Lost, Arts News
Tamsin Smith

If one thinks about it, there is a heaven and hell inside each of us. Life most truly is (as Blake posits) a constant tug of logic and stability against unrestrained creative energy and chaos.

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Lee Speigel

Israeli Scientists Search For 'Gateway To Hell'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Speigel | Posted 04.20.2012 | Weird News
Read More: Video, Dante's Inferno, Hades, Weird Israel, Unexplained Phenomena, Twins Cave, Daniel Schowalter, Underworld, Hell, Greek Goddess Demeter, Weird News News

It's an ancient legend: Located in scattered areas of Earth are openings, doorways, gates, if you will, to some unseen underworld, also variously refe...

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Ask Pastor Paul: Answering Questions About The Afterlife

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush | Posted 04.08.2012 | Religion
Read More: Augustine, Do Non-Christians Go to Heaven?, Salvation, Dante's Inferno, Mourning, Lent, What Happens When We Die, Ask Pastor Paul, Afterlife, Dante, Death & Dying, Do Atheist Go to Heaven?, Heaven, Religion News
Paul Brandeis Raushenbush

Dear Pastor Paul, When I was eight I was taught two things in the same week. The first was that accepting Jesus was the only path to heaven; and the second was that there were a billion people in China who had never heard the name Jesus.

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Regarding Rodin, A Grotesque Love Affair

Posted 01.31.2012 | Arts
Read More: Video, Dante's Inferno, Brooklyn Museum, Sculpture Exhibition, Auguste Rodin, Rachel Kneebone: Regarding Rodin, Rachel Kneebone, Female Artists, Kneebone Rodin, Arts News

Auguste Rodin was considered a master of modern sculpture, although he had no personal goal to rebel against the past. Perhaps that is why Rachel Knee...

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Your Turn To Invent A Literary Board Game

guardian.co.uk | Posted 07.24.2011 | Books
Read More: Alf Seegert, Dante's Inferno, Seven Deadly Sins, The Canterbury Tales, The Road to Canterbury, Literary Board Game, Kickstarter, Books News

I'm excited about playing 'The Road to Canterbury', but surely there are other books that would translate well into dice-rolling entertainment?...

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'Do You Have Any Shakespeare Translated Into English?' And 12 Other Ridiculous Things Overheard In Bookstores (PHOTOS)

Posted 06.19.2011 | Books
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Is it really possible that some people don't know who Dante is, or, more shockingly, Shakespeare? According to bookstore employees, there are such peo...

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WATCH: Dante's 'Inferno,' The Stick Figure Edition

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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When you're too lazy to read an entire book ... and even lazier still not to read the CliffNotes ... then you can turn to this hilarious, shabbily ani...

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AUCTION HOUSE EXHIBIT: Art Inspired By 'Divine Comedy' On View At Sotheby's

nytimes.com | CAROL VOGEL | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: European Art, Lisa Dennison, Auction-Houses, Frans Francken, Dante the Divine Comedy, Dante, Dante's Inferno, Art Exhibits, Sotheby's, Sothebys, Art Exhibitions, Poetry, Arts News

The line between auction houses and art galleries keeps blurring. It is no longer unusual for Sotheby's and Christie's to take over entire galleries. ...

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UNDERGROUND ART: Dante's Inferno Underneath Waterloo Station

Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
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Americans are in trouble unless the UK increases exports. There they are, smugly denying us their resources like David Beckham on the bench. We need t...

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Dante's 'Divine Comedy' Reimagined As Graphic Novel

Seymour Chwast | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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Seymour Chwast

I took on this project with great trepidation because so many great artists have already interpreted this important work. Never mind, I took advantag...

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High Art for the Low Brow

Jessica Rovello | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Da Vinci, Video Game, Arkadium, Ubisoft, Ea, Machiavelli, Jessica Rovello, Dante, Dante's Inferno, Dante's Inferno Video Game, Entertainment News
Jessica Rovello

It's more than a little surprising to see a new crop of console games trading in the old standards (football, hookers, zombies, guns) for a far older standard: renaissance art and literary classics.

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Dante's `Inferno' Video Game

AP | LOU KESTEN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
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While literary classics rarely get turned into video games, they share some DNA. Where would role-playing games be without "The Lord of the Rings"? Wh...

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Five Sequels to the Dante's Inferno Video Game

Laurence Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Pilgrim's Progress, Sir Francis Bacon, John Bunyan, Man for All Seasons, Utopia, Dante's Inferno, Dante's Inferno Video Game, Paradise Regained, Sir Thomas More, New Atlantis, Paradise Lost, John Milton, Everyman, Atlantis, Dante Alighieri, Entertainment News
Laurence Hughes

Five video games based on classic literature that are guaranteed to put the gory back in allegory.

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Classic Literature That Should Be Video Games

ew.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Inferno Video Game, Video Games, Books, Dante's Inferno, Dante, The Divine Comedy, Classic Literature, Books News

Abandon all hope ye who enter the secret code to Level 9. The first part of Dante Alighieri's pre-Renaissance masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, has been...

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