Tackling this culminating challenge in the company of his beloved Beatrice, who inspired the poem, Dante must trasumanar, a ...

As a young man, I converted with great enthusiasm to Catholicism, and for 13 years was an ardent Catholic, eager to argue for the faith with all comers. The idea of not being a Catholic was utterly ...

Dante Alighieri was born 750 years ago this week in Florence. In spite of our distance from medieval theology, Dante's allegorical journey through sin and salvation known as the Divine Comedy endures ...

Though Scorsese has cameoed in many of his movies and occasionally performed in films by other directors – he played Vincent van Gogh in a segment of Akira Kurosawa’s 1990 film “Dreams” and also ...

Dante was born into a Florentine family of low aristocracy. They likely had some status but not much wealth. More importantly, they were supporters of the pope. All of Dante's life was shaped by the ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Dante Alighieri, the medieval Italian poet, didn’t spare popes and other Catholic prelates in “Divine Comedy,” his 14th-century masterwork detailing his imaginary journey from ...

Venice: The painter/filmmaker's 700-year-spanning shrine to the Italian poet gives us two Oscar Isaacs — one in present-day, the other in 14th-century Florence and Renaissance Faire garb — and a ...

Dante's descendant Sperello di Serego Alighieri (L) and the poet's deathmask. Photo: Sperello Di Serego Algieri/Digitalmamma824/flickr To honour the 750th year since the birth of Italy's most famous ...

The man who created our vision of hell can be seen for the first time in more than 700 years after scientists rebuilt his face using his skull. Dante Alighieri became an icon of western literature ...

One of the beauties of public art is that it both tells us who we are and reminds us of who we were. Backtrack a century, and we were irate about a bust of the great poet Dante Alighieri, ordered in ...

(WXYZ) — The newly restored Dante Alighieri monument was officially unveiled today on Belle Isle by the Consulate of Italy in Detroit and the Dante Aligheri Society ...

Timed to this year’s edition of Frieze London, the contemporary gallery Unit presented a group exhibition inspired by Dante’s Inferno. She was the great love of the Early Renaissance Italian poet ...