Luzzi just published his own translation of a different work by Dante – Vita Nuova. It's a lesser known work, much slimmer and more digestible than The Divine Comedy. It depicts a young Dante ...

Editor Francesco Sansovino (1521-83) beautifully combined his own commentaries with those of two other well-known critics, Alessandro Vellutello ... to Pope Pius IV. The "Divine Comedy" is written in ...

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 ...

By Joseph Luzzi DANTE A Life By Alessandro Barbero Translated by ... especially his epic “The Divine Comedy,” have mesmerized biographers beginning with Boccaccio for centuries, leading ...

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.

Today, Dante’s Divine Comedy is arguably most famous as a work of faith — but in Anichini’s lifetime, Dante’s importance to Italian identity lay in politics, patriotism and language. Italy the state ...

Drawn to epic storytelling, Armusik is currently painting Italian Renaissance poet Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy in 40 panels, each 4 foot by 5 foot. He started the process in 2016 ...

Luzzi just published his own translation of a different work by Dante – Vita Nuova. It's a lesser known work, much slimmer and more digestible than The Divine Comedy. It depicts a young Dante ...