McCrae’s work obsessively retreads paths through Heaven, history, and eternal torment. What can we learn from his relentless ...

"Poet, who guidest me, Regard my manhood, if it be sufficient. Ere to the arduous pass thou dost confide me." As a companion to our feature we are providing a link to the ILTweb Digital Dante ...

The American modernist Marianne Moore once wrote that poems are imaginary gardens with real toads in them. This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Its garden is the poem’s otherworld—based on ...

Lying in the Lunigiana hills, Mulazzo is famed for hosting the Florentine poet Dante when he was in exile. You can follow the Via Dantis around the centre, a walking route with nine stops that ...

I’m reading Erich Auerbach’s well-known book Dante: Poet Of The Secular World. It’s a small book, and a dense one, but it is deeply rewarding preparation for the book I’ve started writing.

Who knew then that his vernacular poetry and his radical vision would prove so revolutionary for modern Italian literature? The film opens with Dante’s early life and the indispensable backstory ...

And so it is with “The Storyteller’s Night Sky”: after over 13 years airing on Interlochen Public Radio, this will be the ...