William Blake, “Antaeus Setting Down Dante and Virgil in the Last Circle of Hell” (between 1824 and 1827), pen, ink, and watercolor, 20.7 x 14.72 inches; The National Gallery of Victoria ...

Critics have long compared Dante’s Commedia to a medieval cathedral: a grand architecture that ultimately points us to the plan of God’s overwhelming love for us. More recently, at least one critic ...

See medieval Florence from 1216 to Dante's birth in 1265, his child, education and more. Explore the historical background of medieval Florence from 1216 to Dante's birth in 1265, dramatic details ...

The mother of Dante Alighieri, not long before his birth, had a dream in which her son, having eaten the berries of a laurel tree, grew up and was miraculously transformed into a shimmering ...

Medieval Florence was one of the biggest cities in Europe, but it’s heart is small by modern standards; you can easily see the key Dante sites in a single morning.

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 ...

Arielle Saiber As an academic Arielle Saiber cut her teeth on Italian literature of the medieval and renaissance period. She’s a renowned Dante scholar and vice-president of the Dante Society of ...

Dante's Inferno Anime Trailer Depicts Hell "A breathtaking new vision of Dante Alighieri's medieval classic" is promised in this trailer for the animated companion to poem-inspired video game ...

Pace’s first edited volume, Dante and the Sciences of the Human: Medicine, Physics, and the Soul (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), is forthcoming in the series «Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early ...