In April 2025, The Divine Comedy Opera Musical, based on Italian poet Dante Alighieri's eponymous poem, is scheduled to kick ...

We do the poor souls a great kindness by our prayers and pious acts to help speed them on their journey to Paradise.

In this book, Rachel Teubner offers an exploration of humility in Dante's Divine Comedy, arguing that the poem is an ascetical exercise concerned with training its author gradually in the practice of ...

Spanning the years from the early 1280s until about 1308, this collection of poems contains Dante's juvenilia as well as his more mature work prior to the Divine Comedy. Patrick Diehl's translation ...

Did Shakespeare get it wrong? Is life's basic question "to smile or not to smile," rather than "to be or not to be"?

Inferno takes its inspiration from the first part of Dante’s Divine Comedy, exploring Dante’s descent through the nine ...

In the Divine Comedy, Dante goes down the circles of Hell meeting the world’s most illustrious sinners. 700 years after his death, this series explores the contemporary meaning of the seven ...

In 1321, the leading citizens of Ravenna, Italy, carried Dante’s body to his grave, far from his native Florence, from which he had been exiled for years. Left behind was one of the modern world ...

On those same paper place settings are verses from Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy,” which mirrors how he feels about his approach to food. “It’s a moment in the poem where the poet talks about ...

When the original manuscript of The Divine Comedy emerges in the clutches of ... a parallel tale unfolds: the odyssey of Dante himself, a man who, trapped in a loveless marriage with Gemma and ...

Scientists have created an image of how Dante, the man who created our vision of hell more than 702 years ago, would have looked, using his skull. Poet and writer Dante Alighieri, who is also ...

After the buzz of election week in Chicago, the city hasn’t simmered down; instead, it’s brewing with vibrant events. Here's ...