Mary Jo Bang’s interpretation updates this 14th-century poem for 20th-century readers. Bang makes no attempt to pass herself off as a scholar of medieval Italian, and defends her unfamiliarity with ...

One of the difficulties of any discussion of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” is that if anyone has actually read the critter, they most likely have read only the first third of it, that is, the “Inferno.” ...

And the Rogue Theatre a very brave company. Baliani has adapted “Purgatorio,” the second part of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” for the stage. The Rogue’s season-ender is that adaptation. Read “Purgatorio” ...

Peter S. Hawkins, in his essay collection Dante’s Testaments, writes about the Commedia as pilgrimage. A pilgrimage, he explains, is a rite of passage in which the pilgrim leaves the familiar, joins ...

John J. Miller is joined by Professor Stephen Smith of Hillsdale College to discuss Dante Alighieri's Purgatorio. John J. Miller brings The Great Books podcast to a close. John J. Miller is joined by ...

T.S. Eliot said: “Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.” Hamlet speaks of the afterlife as “the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.” Dante ...