As Dennis Patrick Slattery's writing shows, the very stuff of the great traditions is life itself, and the hurly-burly of current culture is the ground in which tradition thrives. Slattery's analyses are keen and thoughtful, often scholarly, and always deeply spiritual. But they are better for being a bit pugnacious and intimate and virile. They give evidence of a life lived in earnest, one in which nothing is walled off into a category but all enters into the whole that is the mysterious grounding of the person. Foreword by Louise Cowan, Author of "The Fugitive Group" Series Editor: "The...

Dante has it right: we are on more than a journey; we are on a pilgrimage. Author Dennis Patrick Slattery, who has been teaching Dante's works for more than twenty years, believes that our life stories are embedded in the journey of this pilgrim. In "Day-to-Day Dante, " Slattery presents passages from Dante Alighieri's fourteenth-century poem "The Divine Comedy" to assist you in searching for the core elements of your personal myth. "Day-to-Day Dante" is divided into 365 entries and reflections so you may explore and meditate on one page per day for a year. Each entry and reflection is...

Dante has it right: we are on more than a journey; we are on a pilgrimage. Author Dennis Patrick Slattery, who has been teaching Dante's works for more than twenty years, believes that our life stories are embedded in the journey of this pilgrim. In "Day-to-Day Dante, " Slattery presents passages from Dante Alighieri's fourteenth-century poem "The Divine Comedy" to assist you in searching for the core elements of your personal myth. "Day-to-Day Dante" is divided into 365 entries and reflections so you may explore and meditate on one page per day for a year. Each entry and reflection is...