The castle also famously features in Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. It’s the location of the story of Paolo and Francesca, ...

In 2025, The Divine Comedy Musical will tour Chongqing, Changsha, Nanjing, Wuhan, and Nanchang in April and May. Subsequent ...

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

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

A cold, dark November night was imbued with warmth and exuberance during Italian Medieval Night, part of Downtown ...

Dante Alighieri, widely known as Dante, was an Italian philosopher, poet, and writer. He is known for his work The Divine Comedy, which is regarded as the world’s most important work of literature.

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

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

This is a bronze coin titled "Dante before the Mountain of Purgatory [reverse], late 15th century." (OSV News photo/Samuel H. Kress Collection via National Gallery of Art) “This mountain’s of such ...

“This mountain’s of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind.” The speaker is the Roman poet Virgil, Dante’s companion and guide in scaling the ...

The speaker is the Roman poet Virgil, Dante’s companion and guide in scaling the lofty mountain of purgatory in the second book of Dante’s tour-de-force account of the afterlife, “The Divine Comedy.” ...