"All hope abandon, ye who enter in!" - Canto III of Dante's Inferno. Dante imagined Hell like an inverted cone, with its circles gradually becoming smaller nearer to Earth's core. Each circle was ...

Dante Alighieri is one of the pillars of Western literature. And his texts have been translated into English dozens of times. With two new... There's a new translation of Dante's 'The Divine Comedy.' ...

William Blake, “The Circle of the Lustful: Paolo and Francesca,” 1827 engraving; plate: 27.7 x 35.5 cm (10 7/8 x 14 in.), sheet: 43.7 x 59.9 cm (17 3/16 x 23 9/16 in.), mat: 50.8 x 60.9 cm (20 x 24 in ...

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 otherworld—based on ...

Going to hell is usually a tough break. But the poet Michael Palma doesn't seem to mind. The challenge to approaching a translation of Dante's original Italian this way is that it means you can't ...