Dante Alighieri’s ‘Divine Comedy’ offers a transcendent look at what lies ahead for the reader after this life.

News about Dante Alighieri, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

The Divine Comedy is a 14th century poem that has never lost its edge. Dante Alighieri's great work tells the tale of the author's trail through hell — each and every circle of it — purgatory ...

So begins Purgatorio, the second part of the 14th-century poem La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) by Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy consists of three parts: hell, purgatory and heaven ...

You can learn a lot about the works and influences of the great Dante Alighieri at your Manatee County library.

Although “The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri has inspired countless artistic creations, particularly of his “Inferno” canto, until recently no one had produced a prominent theater ...

The opening canzone of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy has appeared in almost every imaginable variety of English translation: prose, blank verse and iambic pentameter; unrhymed or in terza ...

The nightmarish visions of Dante Alighieri, with their many circles of hell, ringed in blood and fire, would seem perhaps a natural draw for politicians who traffic in the rhetoric of us versus ...

Dante’s Purgatorio, the sequel, came out on October 31st from Carcanet, exactly 10 years after its predecessor. And similarly, perhaps even more so, it takes Ireland as its theme in many places.