Mary Jo Bang’s interpretation updates this 14th-century poem for 20th-century readers. Bang makes no attempt to pass herself off as a scholar of medieval Italian, and defends her unfamiliarity with ...

This 1465 fresco by Domenico di Michelino depicts Dante, holding a copy of The Divine Comedy, next to the entrance to hell. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons For centuries, Dante Alighieri’s Divine ...

One of the difficulties of any discussion of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” is that if anyone has actually read the critter, they most likely have read only the first third of it, that is, the “Inferno.” ...

Although “The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri has inspired countless artistic creations, particularly of his “Inferno” canto, until recently no one had produced a prominent theater adaptation of the ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Dante: Purgatorio by Alejandro de la Costa and translated by Mark-Brian Sonna with ...

That’s my daughter Nora and her favorite hen, Violet, in hand. We had just finished listening to the BBC’s one-hour radio play of Dante’s Inferno, and I think Nora needed reassurance. Follow that link ...

Dante holding 'The Divine Comedy'. To one side Florence is depicted, and on the other is a vision of Hell. Behind Dante human figures try to make the ascent to Heaven through Purgatory. Frederico ...

Peter S. Hawkins, in his essay collection Dante’s Testaments, writes about the Commedia as pilgrimage. A pilgrimage, he explains, is a rite of passage in which the pilgrim leaves the familiar, joins ...

The Tucson playwright’s adaptation of the middle canto of poet Dante Alighieri’s classic “Divine Comedy” has its world premiere on The Rogue Theatre stage, opening in previews today. It’s the vivid ...

Dante’s Purgatorio was the planned sequel to Visceral Games’ 2010 action-adventure game Dante’s Inferno. The game would have seen protagonist Dante ascending Mount Purgatory to reunite with Beatrice ...