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A decorated 11th-century manuscript of Lucan's 'Civil War'

Ionesco's 'Improvisation' and the playwright's plight

Architrenius and the life of a 12th-century scholar

The confession of a 15th-century curator of manuscripts

A vertical reading of Dante's Purgatorio 4

Poetry to keep you warm

A petition for a public reading of Dante

Dante on the beach (and the migrants)

Teaching Latin meter through medieval invective

Dante's windmills

In the shadow of the book curse

Tacitus and the decline of ancient Roman education

It’s the way back that counts

Giovanni de Serravalle's Latin translation of the Divine Comedy

Erstwhile thoughts on 'The Great Beauty'

Ode to a rock at sea

The virtues of multilingualism

Django Unchained and the Iliad

Classical anti-classicism

Zeuxis, Parrhasius and the London tube dog

Arabic numerals in Europe

Scribes, illuminators, manuscripts in Baudri de Bourgueil's poems

Benjamin Button and the Shepherd of Hermas

E. K. Rand on being a humanist

Guittone d'Arezzo, Dante and the power of assonance

An unexpected journey to Italy

Montaigne's visit of the Vatican Library

Augustine and iconographic relativity

A reflection on Maundy Thursday

In defence of books and bookshops: 1993

Ex libris

To hold and to cherish... a medieval book

Where did Dante's Empyrean come from?

On the existential subjunctive mood

Pier della Vigna's real confession

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