Poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. July 1870 Issue. Share. Save. REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES. Boston : Roberts Brothers. IT will always be a question, we think, whether Mr. Rossetti had not better ...

The American modernist Marianne Moore once wrote that poems are imaginary gardens with real toads in them. This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Its garden is the poem’s ...

Brunetto Latini, a fellow poet, appears in the seventh circle, Violence, for committing sodomy. By including his own peers, Dante wanted to make readers think deeply about the pervasive nature of sin.

Completed just before Dante died in 1321, it consists of three parts—Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Divine Comedy is a long poem recounting the author’s journey among the damned in ...

In the 14th century, “Dante’s Inferno” was the first part of Dante Alighieri’s epic poem “The Divine Comedy,” a memorable and in-depth trip through hell that has… ...

The Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is best known for his epic poem, the "Divine Comedy." Hulton Archive/Getty.

Ric Burns’s splendid two-part PBS documentary, “Dante: Inferno to Paradise,” has brought Dante’s achievement beyond the groves of academe and into America’s living rooms.

But the poet Michael Palma doesn't seem to mind. In 2002, he published a translation of Dante's Inferno – the first book in Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy .

Guido Cavalcanti, an Italian poet who was also a friend and intellectual influence on Dante Alighieri, sends Dante to Venice to see the sage played by Scorsese for advice on his journey in “The ...