Dante Alighieri is one of the pillars of Western literature. And his texts have been translated into English dozens of times. With two new translations of his work out now, it's worth asking - why do ...

Iconic Italian writer Dante Alighieri penned his classic text 'Inferno' during the 14th century, the first part of his famed ...

Blake Ritson, David Warner and John Hurt star in Stephen Wyatt's dramatisation of Dante's epic poem - the story of one man's incredible journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise ...

Dante: Inferno to Paradise is a two-part, four-hour documentary film chronicling the life, work and legacy of the great 14th ...

Inferno by Dante Alighieri (Signet, $6). The first book in Dante's Divine Comedy can be characterized, in the most universal terms, as a forewarning in every age for the collective human ...

The statue of Dante Alighieri, the great poet, father of the Italian language and author of the ... [+] Divine Comedy, placed in front of the facade of the Basilica of Santa Croce, in the heart of ...

In or around the year 1321, Italian poet, writer, and philosopher Dante Alighieri completed The Divine Comedy, his view of the afterlife, and his terrifying view of Hell in particular. In ...