When Dante Alighieri died 700 years ago, on Sept. 14, 1321, he had just put his final flourishes on the “Divine Comedy,” a monumental poem that would inspire readers for centuries. The “Divine Comedy” ...

The bust of Italian poet Dante Alighieri is seen at Villa Borghese park, in Rome, Italy June 1, 2021. Reuters ROME, June 10 – Italian epic poet Dante is going to heaven – again. Dante, Italy’s ...

In a 1993 lecture on the authenticity of Dante’s letter to Can Grande della Scala (see “A Polysemantic Country Song?), Princeton Danteist Robert Hollander noted, “As far as Dante studies are concerned ...

"All hope abandon, ye who enter in!" - Canto III of Dante's Inferno. Dante imagined Hell like an inverted cone, with its circles gradually becoming smaller nearer to Earth's core. Each circle was ...

Going to hell is usually a tough break. But the poet Michael Palma doesn't seem to mind. To course through bitter waters presently, My wit’s small craft hoists sails for embarkation And takes its ...

A giant in the world of which he wrote, laurel-crowned Dante stands holding his Divine Comedy open to the first lines: “Midway this way of life we’re bound upon, / I woke to find myself in a dark wood ...

SBIFF’s Wednesday roster featured a second screening after the North American premiere of Julian Schnabel’s ambitious mess ...

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Artists of The Royal Ballet in Wayne McGregor’s “The Dante Project.” (Cheryl Mann) I now know why I am not a composer or choreographer. As the first major movement of “The Dante Project”—a three-part ...

Going to hell is usually a tough break. But the poet Michael Palma doesn't seem to mind. So that it will be worthy of salvation. The challenge to approaching a translation of Dante's original Italian ...

ROME, June 10 (Reuters) - Italian epic poet Dante is going to heaven - again. Dante, Italy’s greatest poet, divided his monumental Divine Comedy into three parts – Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. The ...