Joe Conway is searching for Nicolas Sarkozy.
The head of Iamgold Corp. said he intends to track down the French President to find out why his office rejected the final permits the company needs to build a gold mine in French Guiana.
Mr. Sarkozy is scheduled to be in the French territory on Feb. 11 and 12.
“Obviously, I am going to be there as well,” Mr. Conway, Iamgold’s president and chief executive officer, said yesterday in an interview.
Like all books that deserve to be called great, Dante’s Commedia or The Divine Comedy exists in the imagination past the scope of any one reader. It is an ever-expanding creation, reaching beyond each generation on to the next, endlessly. Why this is cannot be fully explained except by reading the book itself.
Conceived in the first years of the 14th Century by a political exile from the Republic of Florence as a cautionary journey through the three realms of the Catholic afterlife (Hell, Purgatory and Paradise), the Commedia’s force does not depend either on the Catholic theology that, interwoven with the mythologies of Greece and Rome, provides the poem’s scaffolding, or on the political circumstances that furnish it with flesh-and-blood characters (though as we draw further away from Dante’s time, the theological intricacies as well as the historical figures require annotations in order to find our way around the poem’s geography).
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