April 2025

«New Haven is a time machine». Those were the initial words of Dr. Charles Mercier, my professor of Music and Classical Language, before our class began the architectural tour of New Haven. The best part of this is that my professor’s words accurately describe this city in New England. Churches were built in the Renaissance […]

“Midway this way of life we’re bound upon, I woke to find myself in a dark wood. Where the right road was wholly lost and gone.(1)” In this essay, I seek to compare Hans Zimmer’s Life Must Have Its Mysteries, composed and published in 2016 for the film Inferno, and William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s Dante and Virgil