Wall Street Journal

‘Dante’s Divine Comedy’ Review: Enduring Visions of the Afterlife

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 ...
PC Gamer

Japanese book publisher 'urgently' reprints Dante's Divine Comedy because a gacha game where you can summon him has the weebs thirsting for that 14th century epic verse

The Divine Comedy is one of the classics of world literature, and still taught in Italian schools to this day. This epic poem was finished in 1321, shortly before author Dante Alighieri's death, and ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Dante: Inferno to Paradise’ Review: A Divine PBS Documentary

In 1321, the leading citizens of Ravenna, Italy, carried Dante’s body to his grave, far from his native Florence, from which he had been exiled for years. Left behind was one of the modern world’s ...
The Economist

A “Divine Comedy” ballet, 700 years after Dante’s death

ARTISTS HAVE been reimagining the “Divine Comedy” for most of the 700 years since Dante Alighieri’s death. A silent-movie version of 1911 was the first of many attempts to adapt his masterpiece of ...