Daniel Fitzpatrick’s new translation of Dante Alighieri’s epic poem, “Paradiso,”is available in three volumes along with illustrations of 100 bronze sculptures — one for each canto in the poem — ...

For centuries, Dante Alighieri’s Inferno has been treated as theology, political commentary and medieval literature folded ...

Inferno, the iconic 14th-century poem by Dante Alighieri widely regarded as a literary masterpiece, may have been inspired by ...

Dante Alighieri was a poet and civic leader in Florence. His enemies had him exiled, hoping he'd disappear from history. But instead he wrote a masterpiece, The Divine Comedy. In an unprecedented move ...

Last month, a statue was unveiled in Cleveland's Cultural Gardens honoring the Italian poet Dante Alighieri. Its timing coincides with a new translation of "Inferno," the first third of his masterwork ...

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 journey from ...

Leaders rally in support of ‘father of Italian language’ after withering comments in German newspaper Italian political and cultural leaders have sprung to the defence of their much-revered poet Dante ...