{"id":80083,"date":"2021-09-30T19:58:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T23:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=80083"},"modified":"2021-09-30T19:58:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T23:58:55","slug":"dante-part-ii-the-power-of-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2021\/09\/30\/dante-part-ii-the-power-of-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Dante Part II: The Power of Language"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>On the 700th Anniversary of Dante Alighieri&#8217;s Death, the Poet To Be Remembered<\/strong>  &#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Percy Shelley said in discussing Dante: &#8222;Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb.\u201d Do today&#8217;s leaders live up to this? Do our American citizens know the difference?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dante has much to teach us today. He not only was a poet\u2014the grandfather of the Italian Renaissance\u2014but he unified the Italian language so that its unification as a sovereign nation would ultimately be successful. At a moment of crisis such as we face today, let&#8217;s take a page from Dante&#8217;s book.  Here is the<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Sh5i8jIIiXI&amp;t=1s\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Sh5i8jIIiXI&amp;t=1s\">recent video presentation<\/a><\/strong> celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 700th Anniversary of Dante Alighieri&#8217;s Death, the Poet To Be Remembered &#8212; Percy Shelley said in discussing Dante: &#8222;Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb.\u201d Do today&#8217;s leaders live up to this? Do our American citizens know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":80084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[484,34,505,486],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-80083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activity","category-updates-culture","category-updates","category-activity-cultural","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80094,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80083\/revisions\/80094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}