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 ...

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,&#… ...

For example, see Canto V, line 39, where Dante speaks of those who “betrayed reason to their appetite.” All five of his questions are good, but this one, I think, is the most important of the lot.

Today I bring our study of Dante’s Paradiso to an end. I’m eager to get into Inferno, so I can blog the entire thing before I leave for Florence at the end of the month.Plus, I see diminishing ...

In other words, the question isn't why should we do Dante's Inferno as a game, ... Kill the rider and you get to ride him. This was in canto VIII. As such, as a game, ...

PROCLAIMS CANTO XI. OF INFERNO FORGERY; Prof. Righetti Argues That Dante Could Have Written Only 33 Cantos. CALLS POET'S SON FORGER Strong Arguments Also Based on Resemblance of Canto XI. to Two ...

Mary Jo Bang's translation of Dante's Inferno replaces his original references with more current ones like Bob Dylan, the paintings of Rodin, and Star Trek. The result is Dante for the next ...

Inferno, Canto XXIX/3, 1979-1983 by Tom Phillips is the cover image of Dante's Purgatorio by Philip Terry.