The worlds of DanteThe poet Dante holds a copy of his Divine Comedy ... Fotostock The ruling party had split into the White Guelphs and the Black Guelphs. The former, with whom Dante was allied ...

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 ...

This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Its garden is the poem’s otherworld—based on the ancient geocentric cosmos ...

Dante Alighieri led two separate lives. As the author of The Divine Comedy he was the genius ... and in Florence the Guelphs duly broke up into "black" and "white" factions. The White Guelphs ...

The poet Dante Aligheri’s “Commedia” — it picked up “Divine” somewhere along the way — may seem an unlikely contender for relevance. Written 800 years ago, it can feel watermarked by the Middle Ages.

Today, Dante’s Divine Comedy is arguably most famous as a work of faith — but in Anichini’s lifetime, Dante’s importance to Italian identity lay in politics, patriotism and language. Italy the state ...

Ultimately, through this new trilogy, The Weeknd has crafted a modern interpretation of the journey depicted in Dante's “Divine Comedy,” inviting listeners to reflect on their own experiences ...