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 ...

Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is 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. There's the real urgency of now, this moment, in which ...

Completed just before Dante died in 1321, it consists of three parts—Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Divine Comedy is a long poem recounting the author’s journey among the damned in ...

The poet Dante Aligheri’s “Commedia” — it picked up “Divine” somewhere along the way — may seem an unlikely contender for relevance. Written 800 years ago, it can feel watermarked by the Middle Ages.

Part One: The Inferno. Episode 1 | 1h 54m 1s Video has Closed Captions | CC. See medieval Florence from 1216 to Dante's birth in 1265, his child, education and more. Explore the historical ...

In 1321, the leading citizens of Ravenna, Italy, carried Dante’s body to his grave, far from his native Florence, from which he had been exiled for years. Left behind was one of the modern world ...

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!

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 ...