She was the great love of the Early Renaissance Italian poet Dante Alighieri. He adored her so much that he cast her as his divine guide to the celestial spheres of heaven in the last book of the ...

Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy is largely considered one of the greatest works of Western literature. The three epic poems—Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso—are an allegory for the ...

Westerly native Joseph Luzzi has spent most of his career teaching, studying and writing about Dante Alighieri, the great ...