a story and a rec: Virgil/Dante

[mayhap]

In May I visited the amazing Minneapolis Arts Institute with my father and brother, the latter of whom was getting ready to leave the Twin Cities after graduation and doing a last hurrah tour as well as entertaining his out-of-town family.

While we were wandering around, perpetually gobsmacked by gallery upon gallery awesome, I suddenly squeaked and darted in the direction of one painting in particular, which turned out to be separated from me by an atrium that necessitated a severe course correction before I found myself standing in front of a familiar canvas: Six Tuscan Poets.

Not familiar enough, however. Upon reading the placard, I realized that, in my initial Google images search, I had been too readily seduced by the appealing composition and sexy hand-porn, and my Virgil/Dante icon turns out to be more of a Guido Cavalcanti/Dante icon, and oh, man, I'm not saying I wouldn't read it, hot young Italian love poets in sweet new love, but talk about your rairpairs.

So I should probably get around to making a new Virgil/Dante icon, but I haven't done so yet. This one is going to have to do for posting about Thrice Purified, virgofolkie's Virgil/Dante set in the same continuum as mine.

I loved the idea when virgofolkie floated it, and now that it exists, I love it even more. A sweet, sensual sexual interlude in Canto I of Purgatorio, with lovely crisp metaphors, poetical banter and philosophical musings, and further sequelae to come!

If you're a Divine Comedy slasher, you should totally check it out.

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[virgofolkie.livejournal.com]

Aw...thanks for the rec and your kind words! I am now researching scenery and types of trees found around Ravenna, Italy (my knowledge of Italian geography is nearly nonexistent, even though I visited there once in 1976 with my family, during a European bus tour) in preparation for the next episode, which is post-Commedia. This one will have to use the timeline from the work itself, rather than the actual time the work was finished (Dante passed away not terribly long after finishing Paradiso). Anyway, the story's currently incubating; hope it won't take me quite as long to finish as the last one...