So begins Purgatorio, the second part of the 14th-century poem La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) by Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy consists of three parts: hell, purgatory and heaven. Written ...
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 otherworld—based on ...
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Readers of all ages have found themselves mesmerized by Benjamin Alire Sáenz’s words. He has mastered writing across genres and styles, putting forth successful poetry books, adult fiction and ...
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 ...
In this learned, literate, and quite entertaining book, Prof. Raffa (UT Austin), uses the fate of the great poet’s remains to lead us on a journey through several centuries of Italian political, ...
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