The following article is adapted from the introduction of Clive James’ new translation of The Divine Comedy, out now from Liveright.* The linked rhymes of the terza rima were a gesture toward form, ...

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.' ...

Last year, September 14, 2021, marked seven hundred years since Dante Alighieri laid down his pen and bid farewell to this mortal coil. The 14th century Tuscan poet left behind an epic that would ...

Part 1 - The Inferno - Explore the historical background of medieval Florence from 1216 to Dante's birth in 1265, dramatic details of Dante’s childhood, education, and early literary and political ...

"Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them. There is no third," T.S. Eliot wrote. Dante's great Christian epic Divine Comedy, set in 1300, offers us a pitiless examination of his life ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In preparation for the 700 anniversary of the death of medieval poet Dante Alighieri, a Canadian artist is creating a sculptural tribute to his “Divine Comedy” that would be the ...

One of the nice things about basing an entertainment product on a 700-year-old epic poem like Dante’s “Divine Comedy” is that you don’t have to pay anything to use the basic intellectual property a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 9—For a long time, Ric Burns thought he was going to be a professor of literature. Then he followed his brother, Ken, into ...

What happens when you take the poetry out of Dante? If you replace the verse with another art -- say, Seymour Chwast's diabolically witty, devilishly expressive cartoon drawings -- you end up with a ...