Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the final installment and continues her style of lively, lyrical translation.

Dante’s vision of the Afterlife in The Divine Comedy influenced the Renaissance, the Reformation and helped give us the modern world, writes Christian Blauvelt.

The Florentine poet’s richly detailed vision of a journey through hell and beyond has inspired other writers and artists for centuries.

When Dante Alighieri died 700 years ago, on September 14, 1321, he had just put his final flourishes on the "Divine Comedy," a monumental poem that would inspire readers for centuries.

New Dante's Divine Comedy translation by Michael Palma Dante Alighieri is one of the pillars of Western literature. And his texts have been translated into English dozens of times.

Dante Alighieri was born 750 years ago this week in Florence. In spite of our distance from medieval theology, Dante's allegorical journey through sin and salvation known as the Divine Comedy ...

The Divine Comedy is a 14th century poem that has never lost its edge. Dante Alighieri's great work tells the tale of the author's trail through hell — each and every circle of it — purgatory ...

The structure of The Divine Comedy focuses on how what we are reading came to be; that is, Dante’s narrator ostensibly takes a retrospective view of his personal physical, moral and spiritual ...

In “The Divine Comedy,” the 14th-century poem by Dante Alighieri that is one of the foundational works of Western literature, the Roman poet Virgil serves as Dante’s guide through Hell and ...

Dante Alighieri is one of the pillars of Western literature. And his texts have been translated into English dozens of times. With two new translations of his work out now, it's worth asking ...

Dante’s comedy is one of the most widely-translated and published works of all time. Written in 1300, it deals with themes which are still relevant today, and which makes today’s generations ...

The American modernist Marianne Moore once wrote that poems are imaginary gardens with real toads in them. This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Its garden is the poem’s ...