So, let’s go to Hell, shall we? It is strange that I begin blogging Dante’s Inferno, the first of his Commedia trilogy, here at the last, but as I’ve said, I only thought we would be doing Purgatorio ...

Because I want to go through Inferno before I head to Florence, I’m going to have to do three cantos per day. It might be more accessible to you readers if I don’t write 5,000 word essays on each ...

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.

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 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 ...

It certainly raised eyebrows. As impressively brutal and pummelling as Dante's Inferno appears, the question is why on Earth - bar it being a licence that's handily in the public domain - would you ...