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 ...

This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Its garden is the poem’s otherworld ... to be widely accessible and was confident that the brilliance of his poetic art would make his vernacular words ...

The poet Dante Aligheri’s “Commedia” — it picked up “Divine” somewhere along the way — may seem ... The most apt comparison to this kind of conversion of life into art could be Ms. Swift, whose litany ...

The statue of Dante Alighieri, the great poet, father of the Italian language and author of the ... [+] Divine Comedy ... Viewing artwork can stir up all kinds of emotions—from the joy and ...