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 ... includes a detailed section on Sandro Botticelli’s illustrations of the “Comedy,”which applied the then-new pictorial techniques ...

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.