Purgatorio- Dante  (1321) Having finished the Inferno, I’m starting into Purgatorio. While Heaven and Hell are attested to in the Bible, there isn’t really anything about

L’inferno- Dante  (1321) Finished the inferno, this month Cantos 33-34.  Canto 33 Ninth circle- Antenora: Traitors to country  So the guy we left gnawing on someone’s brain at

L’inferno- Dante  (1321) Continuing through the inferno, this month Cantos 23-32.  Canto 23 Eighth circle- fifth ditch: Fraudulent/bribe takers Virgil and Dante escape the demon bunch that was

Some more difficult reading this month. There is the continuation of the journey through Dante’s Inferno, and the rest of Marx’s Capital.  L’inferno- Dante  (1321) Continuing

Some more difficult reading this month. There is the continuation of the journey through Dante’s Inferno, and then the start of Marx’s major opus- Capital…

This has been a VERY tough month for reading. The three books that took the majority of the time during the month: Canzoniere, Fascist Doctrine, and

Neve, cane, piede- Claudio Morandini  (2016) Story of an old mountain man/hermit, Adelmo Farandola, who hates being around others. He lives alone high up in an alpine valley,

I try to read one Italian novel, and one history/political theory book per month. I started early on the Italian novel thinking I’d be finished

Starting off 2024 doing some heavy lifting: first I read one of the more difficult Italian novels in Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana, then tackled the nearly one-million-word novel,

New year, more books to read. I had nearly finished up my list of novels, but I ran across more that I wanted to read,