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

So, on to Paradise with Dante and Beatrice. This morning I did a word count of the Lenten Purgatorio blogging I did on this site, thanks to the reader who put all my Purgatorio blogs into a single ...

A reader sends this lengthy but very, very helpful essay by Peter Kalkavage about Dante’s Paradiso. If you aren’t reading it, or even if you are, this is a great overview of the canticle, and a ...

Daniel Fitzpatrick’s new translation of Dante Alighieri’s epic poem, “Paradiso,”is available in three volumes along with illustrations of 100 bronze sculptures — one for each canto in the poem — ...

What makes a poem more than 700 years old feel relevant today? The poet Mary Jo Bang is uniquely qualified to answer that question because she has spent the last 20 years translating Dante's "Divine ...

Dante Studies, the official annual of the Dante Society of America, is dedicated to the furtherance of the study of the works of Dante Alighieri. Its editorial board welcomes submissions, in English ...

Pouria Golestani is the director of the play. He also performs in it along with Yaser Khaseb, Sepas Rezaei, Ghazaleh Roghani, Hamid Rashid, Amin Varkesh, and Hamid Shamshiri, ISNA reported. An Italian ...

The structure of Dante's Paradiso is a mediating sign of "the love that moves the sun and the other stars." Each time Dante the pilgrim moves to a higher sphere, his visionary power grows, passing ...

Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! With the release of Inferno this month, author Dan Brown returned us to the world of ...

What do humans do in heaven? Not too much, though not too little, according to St Augustine, who foresees ‘leisure for the praises of God’ with ‘no inactivity of idleness, and yet no toil constrained ...