Dante Alighieri. Bandanna Books, $11 (160pp) ISBN 978-0-942208-09-2 Rosetti selected, translated and adapted poems by Dante and his contemporaries to form this volume, a classic piece of Victoriana.

Brunetto Latini, a fellow poet, appears in the seventh circle, Violence, for committing sodomy. By including his own peers, Dante wanted to make readers think deeply about the pervasive nature of sin.

An engraving of Dante Alighieri by Stefano Tofanelli, circa 1300. When Dante Alighieri died seven centuries ago, there was no way he could have known how celebrated and venerated his epic poem ...

ELMIRA — During the first six months of the pandemic Tim Schmalz started sculpting a unique visual journey through one of the most famous works ever written, “The Divine Comedy” by Dante ...

Oscar Isaac will be playing Dante in In the Hand of Dante, which premieres at Venice next month, and we now have a first-look image.

On the occasion of the upcoming World Day of Peace, the Dante Alighieri Society of La Spezia, chaired by Carlo Raggi, ...

Dante, a figure in his own work, has lost his way in middle age and is alone and fear-ridden in the woods. The Latin poet Virgil, sent by a shadowy woman called Beatrice, is about to show him Hell.

A photo taken on February 23, 2021 on Piazza Santa Croce in Florence shows a 1865 sculpture of Italian poet, writer and philosopher Dante Alighieri, by Italian sculptor Enrico Pazzi. - Florence ...

“Dante is often presented in a very secular way,” Schmalz said, noting the obsession that universities, artists and writers have had with the Inferno, ignoring the rest of poem.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Dante Alighieri, the medieval Italian poet, didn’t spare popes and other Catholic prelates in “Divine Comedy,” his 14th-century masterwork detailing his imaginary ...