The women who appear in Dante’s "Divine Comedy" are finally getting their due, 700 years later Dante's poems, which are rooted in misogyny, rarely portray feminine subjects as human or sane.

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 ...

Dante, Italy’s greatest poet, divided his monumental Divine Comedy into three parts – Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. The allegory representing a soul's journey to God is one of the world's most ...

Dante’s vision of the Afterlife in The Divine Comedy influenced the Renaissance, the Reformation and helped give us the modern world, writes Christian Blauvelt. “All hope abandon ye who enter ...

It's a lesser known work, much slimmer and more digestible than The Divine Comedy. It depicts a young Dante falling in love with his muse, Beatrice, who dies in the middle of the book.

The gates to hell in Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy tell us to “abandon all hope, yet who enter here”. Despite its unfunny premise, ‘La Commedia’ ends well, with its protagonist Dante ...

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 8 - Two pages from the first edition of the Divine Comedy were found during the transfer of the State Archives of La Spezia. Mayor Pierluigi Peracchini announced the find in the ...

Apr 08, 2025 By Mark Redfern Photography by Kevin Westenberg. The Divine Comedy (the orchestral-pop project of Northern Irish singer/songwriter/composer Neil Hannon) has announced a new album, Rainy ...

New Dante's Divine Comedy translation by Michael Palma Dante Alighieri is one of the pillars of Western literature. And his texts have been translated into English dozens of times.

Following a short interval, The Divine Comedy returned to perform Promenade from 1994, a loosely conceptual narrative album chronicling a day in the life of two lovers in an unnamed seaside town.