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

Ric Burns’s new two-part PBS documentary on the poem is beautifully executed and collaborative in spirit. “Dante: Inferno to Paradise” appeals to lovers of art and anyone wondering what all ...

Ere to the arduous pass thou dost confide me." As a companion to our feature we are providing a link to the ILTweb Digital Dante Project at Columbia University, which offers the complete Italian ...

You're losing the music of the poem." "And – perhaps this will sound a bit, you know, anal, – but just from a purely literal point of view, you're not showing the reader what Dante actually ...

Not everyone in the 14th century was charmed by the poem’s novelty or by Dante’s creative use of tradition in its three-part journey through hell (“Inferno”), purgatory (“Purgatorio”) ...