If you’ve been enjoying my Dante posts, and have been thinking of taking up the Supreme Poet yourself, I recommend supplementing your reading with the new book by Dante scholar Prue Shaw: Reading ...

Only Shakespeare can rival Dante in terms of importance to Western literature. But in the Anglophone world, whereas we are accustomed to countless productions and films of Shakespeare's plays, the ...

In the graveyard, I saw two men arguing. One of them, a proud older man, stood inside a flaming open tomb, trying with his authoritative manner to put the younger man in his place. His opponent could ...

We confront the paradox that the power of Dante’s poetry comes from its strong autobiographical element—lived experience, firmly rooted in time and place and circumstance—but that this experience is ...

The books that the show’s characters read are more than just period props – they offer eagle-eyed fans an extra insight into their thinking. As we get ready to close the chapter on the final series, a ...

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese of the Military Services closes the Holy Door Nov. 20 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington during the ...

RAVENNA, Italy — As she has each evening for the last eight months, Giuliana Turati opened her well-worn copy of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” as the last of 13 peels of a church bell reverberated around ...

Reading Dante IV is the result of a revision on Reading Dante; it is a very personal and original reading of the Divina Commedia by Dante Alighieri, that has been keeping busy the artist for three ...