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

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.

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.

See, Dante invented this form for "The Divine Comedy" called terza rima, where the poem is written in three lines - or tercets. And the first and third line rhyme, and the last word of that middle ...

Dante’s Divine Comedy Reimagined: Sacred Artist Shares Beauty of Catholic Faith. Eric Armusik’s work pays homage to the old masters — with surprising depth of character and emotion.

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 ...

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 ...

Going to hell is usually a tough break. But the poet Michael Palma doesn't seem to mind. In 2002, he published a translation of Dante's Inferno – the first book in Dante's epic poem The Divine ...

Going to hell is usually a tough break. But the poet Michael Palma doesn't seem to mind. In 2002, he published a translation of Dante's Inferno – the first book in Dante's epic poem The Divine ...