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 ...

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 ...

The American modernist Marianne Moore once wrote that poems are imaginary gardens with real toads in them. This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Its garden is the poem’s otherworld—based on ...

For the past few months, a group of incarcerated men at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution have been re-imagining Dante’s journey from hell to paradise as it might apply to their own life ...