This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Its garden is the poem’s otherworld—based on the ancient geocentric cosmos and Christian eschatology—and its toads are Dante’s ...

You may or may not share Dante’s religious convictions, but perhaps you can relate to the notion that romantic love at its ...

The Divine Comedy is possibly the most monumental work of European literature, and has been endlessly remade by changing ...

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The institution in Ravenna houses objects kept by Countess Teresa Gamba Guicciolo, the noblewoman who had a relationship with ...

The valley of death, once seen as an early stage issue, is now a rite of passage for later stage when it comes to company ...

Somewhat loosely based on Dante Alighieri's fourteenth century epic, the Divine Comedy, Dante's Inferno adds a bit of modern butt-kicking to the poet's original masterwork about an odyssey into ...

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