"Poet, who guidest me, Regard my manhood, if it be sufficient. 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 ...

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 ...

A sculpture of Italian poet, writer and philosopher Dante Alighieri by Enrico Pazzi in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. Photo by Vincenzo PINTO / AFP Famous Tuscan poet Dante Alighieri has his own ...

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