Author Archives: Kyle Janke

Beatrice and the Siren

Dante looks in awe upon Beatrice, who unlike the Siren, represents true beauty, where lasting pleasure is found.

Should pleasure define our sense of beauty or should beauty define our sense of pleasure? This is the essential cultural question of The Divine Comedy, and that of our lives as well. Every person follows one or the other of its directives. The world treats beauty as the outgrowth of personal preference. Its definitions of […]

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