And so it is with “The Storyteller’s Night Sky”: after over 13 years airing on Interlochen Public Radio, this will be the ...

The Florentine poet’s richly detailed vision of a journey through hell and beyond has inspired other writers and artists for ...

This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Its garden is the poem’s otherworld—based on the ancient geocentric cosmos and Christian eschatology—and its toads are Dante’s ...

In his masterpiece The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri describes his descent into the underworld where he visits the three realms of the dead— the Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. With the Latin poet ...

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Rains Over Babel,' a queer riff on Dante's Inferno, announces director Gala del Sol as a talent of international cinema.

One of the African-American poet’s most famous works is To Maecenas, written in 1773. Gaius Cilnius Maecenas (c.70 BC-c. 8 BC) was a Roman politician and patron of the poets Virgil and Horace. His ...

Virgil van Dijk rarely allows his focus to move away from his tunnel-visioned, one-game-at-a-time winning mentality. But on Saturday night, he allowed himself a glass of red wine with his wife Rike.

If I felt slightly silly coming to this ancient tourist trap every year, I was comforted that arguably the world’s coolest tourist, the exiled Russian, Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky ...

The Rev. Virgil Wood, a major figure in the fight for civil rights in Lynchburg, died in Houston on Dec. 28 at the age of 93, leaving a legacy as a church leader, educator and activist.

While a 4-1 victory over Premier League strugglers Ipswich Town is unlikely to be regarded as a highlight of Liverpool’s season come May, it was a landmark day for Virgil van Dijk. The Reds ...