Alan R. Perry, “Dante’s Purgatorial Trench Art: The German Military Cemetery at Cassino” (2026)
“The German Military Cemetery at Caira (Cassino), inaugurated in 1965, contains the remains of more than 20,000 Wehrmacht and Nazi WWII soldiers. Its architectural composition, with seven terraces and an open, flat hilltop, recalls Dante’s structural configuration of Purgatory. This point solicits profound implications about the meaning of the buried here.” —Alan Perry, Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, 2026. Alan R Perry essay
Sighting Citation:
“Alan R. Perry, “Dante’s Purgatorial Trench Art: The German Military Cemetery at Cassino” (2026).” Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture. Elizabeth Coggeshall and Arielle Saiber, eds. June 8, 2026. https://www.dantetoday.org/sightings/alan-r-perry-dantes-purgatorial-trench-art-the-german-military-cemetery-at-cassino-2026/.
Posted June 8, 2026