Dante's great Christian epic Divine Comedy, set in 1300 ... Mary Jo Bang's bold new translation of the first canticle, "Inferno," (Italian for "hell,") gives us a new reason to re-examine ...

Part of the significance of The Divine Comedy is that Dante wrote it in the vulgar tongue ... is that his hell is easily recognizable. The Inferno is about life and the real world.

A 1555 edition of The Divine Comedy edited by Lodovico ... Emerging on the other side of the world, Dante’s journey through the underworld, and the Inferno, has come to an end before the dawn ...

Inferno is the opening of Dante's three-part masterpiece The Divine Comedy, which is widely considered one of literature's greatest works, up there with Shakespeare and the Bible. Written in the ...

This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Its garden is the poem ... of tradition in its three-part journey through hell (“Inferno”), purgatory (“Purgatorio”) and heaven ...

“Dante: Inferno to Paradise” appeals to lovers ... he entered the road of exile and never returned. He composed “The Divine Comedy”—beginning in a dark wood and ending with a vision ...

Burns began his latest project, "Dante: Inferno to Paradise," more than ... and the epic masterpiece he left behind, "The Divine Comedy," one of the greatest achievements in the history of Western ...

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.

An example is canto five of Inferno which takes place ... are to him — guides and teachers— Dante is to us. We modern readers of The Divine Comedy who are not believing Christians and ...

One of the greatest masterpieces of all time, Dante Alighieri’s Inferno marks the first of his 3-part Divine Comedy poetic trilogy. Inferno tells the harrowing story of Dante’s journey ...

Michael Palma’s new terza rima translation of the “Divine Comedy “—completing the work he began with a translation of ...