Daily Archives: December 18, 2010

Dante’s Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice by Rossetti

The poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born in London in 1828.   His father was an exiled Italian patriot and Dante scholar.  Torn between a lifetime concentrating on his poetry or a lifetime as a painter, he decided that … Continue reading

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