At the age of forty-five – ten years older than the protagonist of the Commedia – John Kinsella offers us his “distractions” on the three canticles of his predecessor’s great Christian epic. [1] ...

This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine ... the “Comedy.” Not everyone in the 14th century was charmed by the poem’s novelty ...

Given as much, the deft translation of even pedestrian works is at best a daunting task; Dante's "Divine Comedy ... lines or couplets. The three sections of the "Comedy"-- "Inferno," "Purgatorio ...

This note is the second element in a series of three contributions dedicated to the (re-)discovery, by a research group (including myself) under the direction of Prof. P. Trovato in Ferrara (Italy), ...

Sacred and profane, visceral and enlightening, The Divine Comedy, which consists of the three parts of Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, has been an inexhaustible source of inspiration for a plethora ...

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. “All hope abandon ye who enter ...

The Divine Comedy is a 14th century poem that ... "Which is that of the three books of the Comedy — that's 'Hell,' 'Purgatory' and 'Heaven, 'Hell' is the most fascinating, in the first instance ...

The challenge to approaching a translation of Dante's original Italian this way is that it means you can't concentrate on three lines ... digestible than The Divine Comedy. It depicts a young ...

After they'd finished writing, Taylor asked them why many people are drawn to the gruesome images in Dante's "Inferno," the first of three sections in "The Divine Comedy." "People like seeing ...

Reflecting on his three monumental undertakings — the two online projects and the translation of “The Divine Comedy” — she remarked that “most people are happy” if they achieve only ...