The American modernist Marianne Moore once wrote that poems are imaginary gardens with real toads in them. This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Its garden is the poem’s ...

Poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. July 1870 Issue. Share. Save. REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES. Boston : Roberts Brothers. IT will always be a question, we think, whether Mr. Rossetti had not better ...

Concerning Dante’s didactic poems in general, it may be said that, even to an Anglo-Saxon who has personally, and vicariously through Puritan ancestors, listened for centuries to moral preaching ...

In “The Divine Comedy,” the 14th-century poem by Dante Alighieri that is one of the foundational works of Western literature, the Roman poet Virgil serves as Dante’s guide through Hell and ...

The Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is best known for his epic poem, the "Divine Comedy." Hulton Archive/Getty.

While filmmakers are no stranger to literary adaptation, videogame designers have not leaped to translate the classic novels and poems into their medium. Jonathan Knight, executive producer of the ...

Ric Burns’s splendid two-part PBS documentary, “Dante: Inferno to Paradise,” has brought Dante’s achievement beyond the groves of academe and into America’s living rooms.

Part One: The Inferno. Episode 1 | 1h 54m 1s Video has Closed Captions | CC. See medieval Florence from 1216 to Dante's birth in 1265, his child, education and more. Explore the historical ...

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… ...

For the last decade, Hollywood has been mining comic books and fantasy novels for its blockbuster source material, with Harry Potter, Spider-Man, Batman and Gandalf leading the vivid parade ...

But the poet Michael Palma doesn't seem to mind. In 2002, he published a translation of Dante's Inferno – the first book in Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy .

Completed just before Dante died in 1321, it consists of three parts—Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Divine Comedy is a long poem recounting the author’s journey among the damned in ...