It's been more than seven centuries since the Italian poet Dante Alighieri first took readers along for his personal journey through hell, but the power of his words hasn't dimmed one bit. "You're ...

IT will always be a question, we think, whether Mr. Rossetti had not better have painted his poems and written his pictures ; there is so much that is purely sensuous in the former, and so much that ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Electronic Arts' upcoming game Dante's Inferno is a riff on God of War that stars a beefed-up warrior based on the author of The Divine Comedy. Seriously. This contemporary take on the ...

What makes contemporary poets so oddly, and even perversely, attracted to Dante Alighieri? Like the scores of acquaintances whom Dante imagines either burning in hell or clambering upward toward ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — Dante Alighieri's timeless allegory about the afterlife, "The Divine Comedy," begins one Good Friday in the 14th century. This Good Friday, Williamstowners will have a chance to spend ...

Last year marked the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, the Italian poet and author of The Divine Comedy, one of the most influential literary works in human history. In celebration of ...

EA has partnered with Del Rey Books to publish a paperback edition of classic poem Inferno, part one of The Divine Comedy, which inspired upcoming game Dante's Inferno. Del Ray Books, an imprint of ...

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was a British poet, writer and playwright of the Victorian era. Active in the aesthetic circle, romantic and then decadent, he met Oscar Wilde and other famous ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. As a man, Dante seems just out of reach. Although prolific, not a skerrick written in his own hand survives. He was mentioned by two ...

While filmmakers are no stranger to literary adaptation, videogame designers have not leaped to translate the classic novels and poems into their medium. Jonathan Knight, executive producer of the ...

Welcome readers of my Wall Street Journal essay about how Dante saved my life. If you want to read a longer, more in-depth version, check out my cover story from the current issue of TAC. If you’re ...