What if the point of “Paradise Lost” was not what Milton thought of Satan, but what he thought of himself?
Dante
Grammars of Grace: Dante’s Poetry of Sanctification
Phillip J. Donnelly shows how Dante invites readers to grow in holiness through their reading.
Ver Erat Aeternum
Both Christian and pagan alike sense that spring is the original state of the world. Fall, on the other hand, comes from the Fall.