The Florentine poet’s richly detailed vision of a journey through hell and beyond has inspired other writers and artists for centuries.

Books Clive James Divine Comedy translation: An excerpt from the introduction, plus Inferno 1, 5, and 26. An introduction to the beauty, variety, and drive of Dante’s epic poem—plus three ...

Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the ...

"Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them. There is no third," T.S. Eliot wrote. Dante's great Christian epic Divine Comedy, set in 1300, offers us a pitiless examination of his ...

The three sections of the "Comedy"-- "Inferno," "Purgatorio" and "Paradiso" -- are organized into 33 cantos, or sections, each, with a single concluding canto to make up a total of 100.

Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise Seymour Chwast, Bloomsbury, $20 (128p) ISBN 978-1-60819-084-3 ...

Dante Alighieri was born 750 years ago this week in Florence. In spite of our distance from medieval theology, Dante's allegorical journey through sin and salvation known as the Divine Comedy ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In preparation for the 700 anniversary of the death of medieval poet Dante Alighieri, a Canadian artist is creating a sculptural tribute to his “Divine Comedy” that ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — According to the sculptor, limiting the poem’s scope to the Inferno has led to a secularization of Dante’s work. Schmalz’s sculpture will be the first to represent all ...