This is an allegoric image, showing Lucifer is damned as far as possible away from the sun and the divine ... landslide. Dante also experiences an earthquake at the shores of the river Acheron ...

The worlds of DanteThe poet Dante holds a copy of his Divine Comedy ... The Rivers Acheron, Styx, and Phlegethon are said to come from a single river born from the tears flowing from the giant ...

The Divine Comedy ... river of blood; you name it, 'Hell' has got it. But 'Purgatory' and 'Heaven' have mainly just got theology. And the challenge for the translator is to reproduce Dante's ...

Given as much, the deft translation of even pedestrian works is at best a daunting task; Dante's "Divine Comedy" is on another level altogether. The endlessly supple mastery of language ...

Luzzi just published his own translation of a different work by Dante – Vita Nuova. It's a lesser known work, much slimmer and more digestible than The Divine Comedy. It depicts a young Dante ...

Dante’s vision of the Afterlife in The Divine Comedy influenced the Renaissance, the Reformation and helped give us the modern world, writes Christian Blauvelt. “All hope abandon ye who enter ...

A giant in the world of which he wrote, laurel-crowned Dante stands holding his Divine Comedy open to the first lines: “Midway this way of life we’re bound upon, / I woke to find myself in a ...

The opening lines of Robin Kirkpatrick's translation of Dante's "Divine Comedy" find the poet "searching through a dark wood, the right way blurred and lost." In May of 2015, in celebration of ...