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

Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the ...

New Dante's Divine Comedy translation by Michael Palma Dante Alighieri is one of the pillars of Western literature. And his texts have been translated into English dozens of times.

See, Dante invented this form for "The Divine Comedy" called terza rima, where the poem is written in three lines - or tercets. And the first and third line rhyme, and the last word of that middle ...

The Divine Comedy is one of the classics of world literature, and still taught in Italian schools to this day. This epic poem was finished in 1321, shortly before author Dante Alighieri's death ...

Dante's Divine Comedy: A Biography. By Joseph Luzzi. Princeton University Press. 232 pages. We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. Buy Book.

It's a lesser known work, much slimmer and more digestible than The Divine Comedy. It depicts a young Dante falling in love with his muse, Beatrice, who dies in the middle of the book.

Japan. A Japanese publisher reprints Dante’s Divine Comedy, and it’s all thanks to a gacha game Here’s how Dante Alighieri became a hit in Japan 704 years later.

Going to hell is usually a tough break. But the poet Michael Palma doesn't seem to mind. In 2002, he published a translation of Dante's Inferno – the first book in Dante's epic poem The Divine ...