Perspectives | On Nostalgia
By Dostoyevsky, Machado, Marquez and others
One of the souls Dante places in his second circle of hell, the one reserved for the lustful, is Francesca da Rimini, an Italian medieval noblewoman who was murdered by her husband after he discovered her affair with his brother.
Alongside her lover Paolo, Rimini's eternal suffering takes the form of being perennially swept up in a violent storm, mirror…
