After Virgil’s death, Augustus Caesar ordered that his unfinished poem be preserved, against the poet’s ... Goethe’s Faust ...

Dante Alighieri is one of the pillars of Western literature. And his texts have been translated into English dozens of times. With two new translations of his work out now, it's worth asking - why do ...

While you are expected to read the Inferno in their entirety ... board posts will help you to gain understanding and confidence in writing about Dante’s poem. In allocated weeks, each student will ...

In Dante Alighieri's Inferno, the author describes Virgil and ... sense of trust and care between one another throughout the poem. But when they reach heaven, Virgil is barred from entering ...

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 Project at Columbia University, which offers the complete Italian ...

Dante himself, in the Inferno, wants to make the direct approach ... That’s how I ended up writing a Dante for Ireland – and despite the poem’s engagement with some of the darkest moments ...

Blake Ritson, David Warner and John Hurt star in Stephen Wyatt's dramatisation of Dante's epic poem - the story of one man's incredible journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise ...

Continuing this week’s theme of journeys, our music today takes us from Venice to New Orleans via the second circle of Hell - as represented in Tchaikovsky’s tone poem Francesca da Rimini ...

You're losing the music of the poem." "And – perhaps this will sound a bit, you know, anal, – but just from a purely literal point of view, you're not showing the reader what Dante actually ...

You're losing the music of the poem." "And – perhaps this will sound a bit, you know, anal, – but just from a purely literal point of view, you're not showing the reader what Dante actually ...