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Tag Archives: Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta

“Dante’s Lovers”

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Abigail

“Dante’s Lovers” There is a circle of hell, not very far down but definitely under the white line of redemption, where Dante places a certain species of doomed lover. There the enchanted couples pursue each other and, it seems, are … Continue reading →

Posted in Alienation, Chivalry, Courtship, Culture, Desire, Erotic Life, Evil, Faith, Femininity, Gender Balance, Guilt and Innocence, Identity, Idolatry, Literature, Love, Male Power, Memoir, Poetry, Power, Psychology, relationships, Roles, Seduction, Sex Appeal, slave, Spirituality, Suffering, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Woman, Theism, Time, twentieth century, Zeitgeist | Tagged "getting religion", "Lydia", "Now Voyager", "Ode on a Grecian Urn", addiction, attraction, Bette Davis, blind devotion, courtship, cynicism, Dante, doomed lovers, Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta, fulfillment, hell, hope, idyll, infatuation, John Keats, longing, lust, Merle Oberon, projection, romantic fantasy, sacrificial love, scorned lovers, second circle, seduction, self-deception, tease, unrequited love | Leave a comment
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