Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the ...

Mark Franke, M.B.A., an adjunct scholar of the Indiana Policy Review and its book reviewer, is a former associate vice chancellor of Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. Send comments to ...

Love, politics, and war Dante’s autobiographical writing furnishes historians with clues as to the identity of the woman who would become one of the most famous muses in literature.

See medieval Florence from 1216 to Dante's birth in 1265, his child, education and more.

The Florentine poet’s richly detailed vision of a journey through hell and beyond has inspired other writers and artists for centuries.

Combining expert commentary and artful dramatizations, Ric Burns’s two-part film traces Dante’s life and towering literary achievement.

Dante: Inferno to Paradise, by acclaimed filmmaker Ric Burns, explores the riveting life and times of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) and his soaring masterpiece "The Divine Comedy" – one of the ...

There's a political crisis at hand, intense never-ending conflict and fragmentation, and Dante really believes that we're close to end times.

Open Window Theatre presents Dante’s INFERNO, adapted and directed by Jeremy Stanbary from the translation by John Ciardi. Learn more about this upcoming production and how to get tickets here!

‘The Divine Comedy,’ by Dante Alighieri Translated by Michael Palma Liveright, 624 Pages The poet Dante Aligheri’s “ Commedia ” — it picked up “Divine” somewhere along the way — may seem an unlikely ...