It’s been said that a sermon should be judged by its impact beyond the moment when it’s preached. In the last month, the bishop’s sermon at the National Cathedral has been making a difference.

‘Portrait of Dante,’ by Sandro Botticelli, 1495. Detail.via Wikimedia Commons The most apt comparison to this kind of conversion of life into art could be Ms. Swift, whose litany of ex-boyfriends have ...

Mr. Luzzi’s discussion of responses to Dante in the Renaissance also includes a detailed section on Sandro Botticelli’s illustrations of the “Comedy,”which applied the then-new pictorial ...