Every arthouse filmmaker with staggering ambition gets their “Heaven’s Gate,” their “Southland Tales,” their, yes, “Megalopolis,” a movie so boundlessly overachieving that it winds up alienating ...

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 ...

Dante: Inferno to Paradise, by acclaimed filmmaker Ric Burns, explores the riveting life and times of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) and his soaring masterpiece "The Divine Comedy" – one of the greatest ...

David Wright article on upcoming staging of Liszt's Symphony on Dante's Divine Comedy and Rachmaninoff's one-act opera Francesca da Rimini by American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botsein, at ...

For a long time, Ric Burns thought he was going to be a professor of literature. Then he followed his brother, Ken, into filmmaking. Burns began his latest project, “Dante: Inferno to Paradise,” more ...

The Divine Comedy is a 14th century poem that has never lost its edge. Dante Alighieri's great work tells the tale of the author's trail through hell — each and every circle of it — purgatory and ...

Dante Alighieri is one of the pillars of Western literature. And his texts have been translated into English dozens of times. With two new... There's a new translation of Dante's 'The Divine Comedy.' ...