For the past few years, my cousin Taggy — the classics-lover — and I have developed a birthday tradition where we gift each other books ...

History is not short of men who reached high office while living lives that merited opprobrium. Dante populated about half of ...

While reading the 'Divine Comedy,' I feel like I spent more time flipping back and forth to the annotations than reading the ...

An exhibition of the work of post-modern artist Anthony Lawrence is to be staged at St John’s, Waterloo, London, in October ...

Dante and Virgil in Purgatory” (photo: Public Domain) We do the poor souls a great kindness by our prayers and pious acts to help speed them on their journey to ...

Dante’s Bloodline, a psychological nightmare adventure from ONE-O-ONE GAMES. You play as Gabriele Alighieri, a descendant of Dante who inherits the responsibility of resealing Hell’s gates. What ...

With an Opening full of guests and surprises, the most cinematic Halloween ever has begun at Cinecittà World. Until November ...

Florence was founded in 59 BC, and in the 2,000 years since, the capital city of Italy’s Tuscany region has produced an ...

Monument of Dante Alighieri an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. (photo: Unsplash) COMMENTARY: The great medieval Catholic poet still has lessons to impart — 700 years after his death. Anthony ...

Dante's principle of punishment echoing sin has a name: contrapasso, and it shapes all of Inferno. The principle applies at ...

During Holy Week before Easter in 1300, Dante, at the age of thirty-five and in the "middle of the journey of our life," finds himself lost in a dark forest. From there until Easter morning, he ...

In an obituary in the Vancouver Sun, John Mackie describes Masse as ''Vancouver's premier psychedelic artist of the '60s. His ...