When Dante Alighieri died 700 years ago, on Sept. 14, 1321, he had just put his final flourishes on the “Divine Comedy,” a monumental poem that would inspire readers for centuries. The “Divine Comedy” ...

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 ...

So that it will be worthy of salvation. The challenge to approaching a translation of Dante's original Italian this way is that it means you can't concentrate on three lines at a time – you have to ...

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here! So warns the inscription on the gates of the inferno, the first realm of Dante Alighieri’s celebrated work, now known as the Divine Comedy. “La Commedia”, as Dante ...

Portrait of Dante Alighieri (1265–1321); fresco by Luca Signorelli, 1499–1504 , San Brizio Chapel, Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, Orvieto, Umbria, Italy (Photo by Leemage / Corbis via Getty Images) ...

The Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department at Brandeis houses a number of rare works by Dante Alighieri, such as the Aldine Press' first edition of "Le terze rime di ...