Leaders rally in support of ‘father of Italian language’ after withering comments in German newspaper Italian political and cultural leaders have sprung to the defence of their much-revered poet Dante ...

Born in Florence, Italy, in 1265, Dante Alighieri—his full name was Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri, but he's better known simply as Dante—is considered one of the most important poets in history ...

Last month, a statue was unveiled in Cleveland's Cultural Gardens honoring the Italian poet Dante Alighieri. Its timing coincides with a new translation of "Inferno," the first third of his masterwork ...

The world knows the Divine Comedy as a poem. For your family, it is a prison. As Gabriele Alighieri, you inherit a duty: ...

Seven centuries after guilty verdict in Florence, Sperello di Serego Alighieri to help test whether poet’s conviction would stand today [Article revised due to a misunderstanding about the ‘retrial’ - ...

Venice: The painter/filmmaker's 700-year-spanning shrine to the Italian poet gives us two Oscar Isaacs — one in present-day, the other in 14th-century Florence and Renaissance Faire garb — and a ...

On April 24th, Samantha Cristoforetti, Italy’s first female astronaut, took time off from her regular duties in the International Space Station to read from the_ _Divine Comedy. She picked the opening ...

It's been more than seven centuries since the Italian poet Dante Alighieri first took readers along for his personal journey through hell, but the power of his words hasn't dimmed one bit. "You're ...