This is where Joseph Luzzi’s “Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Biography” comes in. By recounting the history of the poem’s reception by readers over the centuries—from Giovanni Boccaccio and Michelangelo in ...

Teaching courses on Dante's Divine Comedy and on the Renaissance in Italy are two of the joys of Robert Proctor's life. He wants to inspire in students a love of Dante's great work and a desire to ...

During post-Renaissance periods that favored decoration ... Michael Palma’s new terza rima translation of the “Divine Comedy “—completing the work he began with a translation of “Inferno ...