When Dante Alighieri died 700 years ago, on Sept. 14, 1321, he had just put his final flourishes on the "Divine Comedy," a monumental poem that would inspire readers for centuries. The "Divine Comedy" ...

ROME, June 10 – Italian epic poet Dante is going to heaven – again. Dante, Italy’s greatest poet, divided his monumental Divine Comedy into three parts – Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. The allegory ...

As every Italian schoolchild knows, The Divine Comedy opens in a supernatural 'dark forest' just before sunrise on Good Friday, 1300. Dante Alighieri, a figure in his own work, has lost his way in ...

Last Updated on July 6, 2026 by Angel Melanson A Dark Fantasy Horror Reimagining of Dante's Inferno is shooting in Rome, Italy this Fall. The Divine Comedy is set to begin filming in September, ...

As Neil Hannon prepares to release his 13th record as The Divine Comedy, he talks to Lauren Murphy about loss, writing music for Hollywood and the state of his ambition Neil Hannon of The Divine ...

Sandro Botticelli, “Beatrice explains to Dante the order of the cosmos (Divine Comedy, Paradiso II)” (circa 1481–1495), pen and brown ink over metal pen on parchment, 32.4 x 47.4 cm (© Staatliche ...

What happens when you take the poetry out of Dante? If you replace the verse with another art -- say, Seymour Chwast's diabolically witty, devilishly expressive cartoon drawings -- you end up with a ...

The American modernist Marianne Moore once wrote that poems are imaginary gardens with real toads in them. This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Its garden is the poem’s otherworld—based on ...