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

Rodin’s “The Thinker” was originally created as part of a much larger work inspired by Dante’s “Inferno.” The seated figure ...

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 ...

I århundreder er forestillingen om Helvede blevet formet lige så meget af fantasien som af religionen, og få værker har sat ...