One imagines that Dante leaves Limbo feeling pretty good about things. He has spent time with some of the greatest poets and philosophers who ever lived, and done so in a resort setting. But he is ...

I erred in the last entry, saying that Dante and Virgil had crossed the Styx and were standing at a tower. In fact, they don’t cross until Canto 8, when the infernal boatman Phlegyas ferries them ...

Parishioners, poets, translators, visiting scholars and guests will read cantos from Dante's "Inferno" as he originally intended them to be read starting at 9 p.m. on Maundy Thursday, April 21.

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A great many college students give up on “The Divine Comedy,” usually after they’ve determined in which circle of hell they are destined to reside. (And most don’t get far, as the second circle is for ...

When Dante (“Inferno,” Canto XXII) wrote that “the captain made a trumpet of his ass,” he could not have known how shamelessly he would be ripped off by “Jackass 3D,” which shows a guy not only ...

A tradition on Maundy Thursday - which commemorates the Last Supper - is to keep vigil through the night, meditating and praying, as Peter, James and John are said to have been asked to do in the ...