Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. As a man, Dante seems just out of reach. Although prolific, not a skerrick written in his own hand survives. He was mentioned by two ...

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 ...

The Divine Comedy, the poet’s tour of the Christian afterlife, is filled with strikingly modern touches—and a poetic energy ...

Going to hell is usually a tough break. But the poet Michael Palma doesn't seem to mind. To course through bitter waters presently, My wit’s small craft hoists sails for embarkation And takes its ...

When Dante Alighieri died 700 years ago, on Sept. 14, 1321, he had just put his final flourishes on the “Divine Comedy,” a monumental poem that would inspire readers for centuries. The “Divine Comedy” ...

The bust of Italian poet Dante Alighieri is seen at Villa Borghese park, in Rome, Italy June 1, 2021. Reuters ROME, June 10 – Italian epic poet Dante is going to heaven – again. Dante, Italy’s ...

THE 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death (and, let’s hope, also the fulfilment of his own divine vision) is a prime moment to expand the vast output of work delivered regularly by committed ...

Pouria Golestani is the director of the play. He also performs in it along with Yaser Khaseb, Sepas Rezaei, Ghazaleh Roghani, Hamid Rashid, Amin Varkesh, and Hamid Shamshiri, ISNA reported. An Italian ...

When Dante (“Inferno,” Canto XXII) wrote that “the captain made a trumpet of his ass,” he could not have known how shamelessly he would be ripped off by “Jackass 3D,” which shows a guy not only ...

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.' ...

Going to hell is usually a tough break. But the poet Michael Palma doesn't seem to mind. The challenge to approaching a translation of Dante's original Italian this way is that it means you can't ...