Over the centuries, Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy has often been declared the pinnacle of the medieval literary mind.

Tuesday that Italy's Supreme Poet had been the first great pro-European. The Italian diplomatic consular network is paying ...

One of the favourite passages for readers of this stamp was the speech Dante puts into the mouth of Ulysses in the Inferno – a rousing call to self-transcending exploration fitting for the splendour ...

The Italian medieval author Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is known for his fantastical reimagining of the worlds of the Christian afterlife, the Commedia (Divine Comedy). The poem is a fictional ...

Blake Ritson, David Warner and John Hurt star in Stephen Wyatt's dramatisation of Dante's epic poem - the story of one man's incredible journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise ...