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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Dante at Illinois” celebrates the history and contributions of the famous Italian poet through a 31-piece exhibition, currently displayed in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library in Urbana.

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 ...

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 ...