Sauce, Gravy, or Dante? (Part 1)
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Sauce, Gravy, or Dante? (Part 1)

In 1954, Giuseppe Prezzolini, Italian author and historian of Italian literature asked; “what is the glory of Dante compared to spaghetti?” He went on to observe “spaghetti has entered many American homes where the name of Dante is never pronounced.”

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Sauce, Gravy, or Dante? (Part 2)
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Sauce, Gravy, or Dante? (Part 2)

Dante Alighieri; author of The Divine Comedy, Father of the Italian Language, philosopher, theologian, statesman. In my previous post, I make the point that to truly understand Italian and Italian-American culture you need to understand Dante. That post focuses on Dante the poet, the author of The Divine Comedy.

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