Botticelli’s Map of Hell, 1485, inspired by Dante’s Inferno. Source: Wikimedia Commons From Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th century manuscript of Dante’s The Divine Comedy.

Perhaps the most significant literary work done by a Harvard professor for a number of years is Professor Norton's translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. Hell, the first division of the poem ...

She was the great love of the Early Renaissance Italian poet Dante Alighieri. He adored her so much that he cast her as his divine guide to the celestial spheres of heaven in the last book of the ...