Dante, Italy’s greatest poet, divided his monumental Divine Comedy into three parts – Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. The allegory representing a soul's journey to God is one of the world's most ...

New Dante's Divine Comedy translation by Michael Palma Dante Alighieri is one of the pillars of Western literature. And his texts have been translated into English dozens of times.

THE DIVINE COMEDY. Professor Norton ... who reveals himself to Dante as the poet Vergil, who tells him that in order to reach the light they must first go through the depths of Hell, ...

The Florentine poet’s richly detailed vision of a journey through hell and beyond has inspired other writers and artists for centuries.

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 ...

"The Divine Comedy" was written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and 1321, and consists of 14,000 lines of terza rima poetry--a form of chain rhyme generally following an A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C (and ...

Dante Alighieri was born 750 years ago this week in Florence. In spite of our distance from medieval theology, Dante's allegorical journey through sin and salvation known as the Divine Comedy ...

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There's a new translation of Dante Alighieri's "The Divine Comedy" out now. It's one of the defining works of Western literature, which means there have been dozens of English translations, going ...

Dante's Divine Comedy: A Biography. By Joseph Luzzi. Princeton University Press. 232 pages. We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. Buy Book.