It's been more than seven centuries since the Italian poet Dante Alighieri first took readers along for his personal journey through hell, but the power of his words hasn't dimmed one bit."You're ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Dante Alighieri, the medieval Italian poet, didn’t spare popes and other Catholic prelates in “Divine Comedy,” his 14th-century masterwork detailing his imaginary ...

The best part of Aw, Hell is the walking tour at the beginning—it's not a long trek, though it is heavy on rules: No sinning.

In the 14th century, "Dante's Inferno" was the first part of Dante Alighieri's epic poem "The Divine Comedy," a memorable and in-depth trip through hell that has become required reading for most ...

Guido Cavalcanti, an Italian poet who was also a friend and intellectual influence on Dante Alighieri, sends Dante to Venice to see the sage played by Scorsese for advice on his journey in “The ...

Hell Is Getting A Makeover From Catholics; Jesuits Call It a Painful State But Not a Sulfurous Place. Dante's poem The Inferno for 700 years has provided vivid inspiration to painters and ...

Three years ago, on the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, Pope Francis issued an apostolic letter, “Candor Lucis Aeternae” (“Splendor of Eternal Light”). In it the pope ...

Dante Alighieri's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 3 USD to 17,797 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. ... She was the great love of ...

Dante's position on the island has become a nice piece of real estate, visible from four directions. Across Central Avenue, a former hero of Detroit's German population has grown obscure and obscured.

The nightmarish visions of Dante Alighieri, with their many circles of hell, ringed in blood and fire, would seem perhaps a natural draw for politicians who traffic in the rhetoric of us versus ...