Riccardo Bacchelli

Riccardo Bacchelli (1891–1985), nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature eight times, was one of the great Italian writers of the twentieth century and a giant in Catholic letters. He was acclaimed for his dedication to the Italian literary tradition, and for his historical novels, including The Mill on the Po.Anthony Esolen, a professor of English and a writer in residence at Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts, is well known for his translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. He is the author of twenty-eight books, including Sex and the Unreal City and his book-length sacred poem The Hundredfold: Songs for the Lord.