The Florentine poet’s richly detailed vision of a journey through hell and beyond has inspired other writers and artists for ...
This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Its garden is the poem’s otherworld—based on the ancient geocentric cosmos and Christian eschatology—and its toads are Dante’s ...
Luzzi just published his own translation of a different work by Dante – Vita Nuova. It's a lesser known work, much slimmer and more digestible than The Divine Comedy. It depicts a young Dante ...
Blake Ritson, David Warner and John Hurt star in Stephen Wyatt's dramatisation of Dante's epic poem - the story of one man's incredible journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise ...
Dante and the Divine Comedy featured in Michelino’s 1465 fresco in Florence’s Duomo Credit: Hulton Fine Art Collection This is a book that, crucially, does not seem to know quite who – or ...
In his masterpiece The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri describes his descent into the underworld where he visits the three realms of the dead— the Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. With the Latin poet ...
Bizarre, eh? He wrote about the experience; it’s called the Divine Comedy, and the author is Dante Alighieri. As I pulled into my driveway, I thought about how amazing it is to encounter a good ...