The Florentine poet’s richly detailed vision of a journey through hell and beyond has inspired other writers and artists for ...

Ric Burns’s new two-part PBS documentary on the poem is beautifully executed and collaborative in spirit. “Dante: Inferno to Paradise” appeals to lovers of art and anyone wondering what all ...

"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 ...

Not everyone in the 14th century was charmed by the poem’s novelty or by Dante’s creative use of tradition in its three-part journey through hell (“Inferno”), purgatory (“Purgatorio”) ...

He asks the first guy he sees for some help: The ancient Roman poet Virgil ... the underworld and there Virgil shows Dante the underbelly of the Inferno, which closely resembles the decayed ...