Oh, That Dante
Wednesday June 25, 2008
New York Yankees' manager Joe Girardi has a six-year-old son named Dante, an aspiring catcher who frequently practices with the major league team. The youngster was named after another baseball player, Dante Bichette, a former teammate of Girardi's when they played together on the Colorado Rockies.
It makes one abandon hope that anyone still recalls the most famous Dante in history, that towering figure of world literature, Dante Alighieri, the author of the three-part epic La Divina Commedia, one of the great works of world literature and the seminal work of the Italian language.
It makes one abandon hope that anyone still recalls the most famous Dante in history, that towering figure of world literature, Dante Alighieri, the author of the three-part epic La Divina Commedia, one of the great works of world literature and the seminal work of the Italian language.
Comments
Don’t worry! I named my cat Dante after Dante Alighieri!