Stanton discussing Whitten's Flowchart of Wonder: "Biology and Chemistry would've been easy in the Middle Ages. All the answers would have been God."

We can better appreciate the density and complexity of Dante's symbolism by looking at a single example. Our common image of Satan is that of a sly tempter (in popular art he is often in formal dress whispering blandishments in a willing ear with just a whiff of sulphur about him) after the manner of Milton's proud, perversely tragic, heroic Satan ( Read more... )