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.

On the other hand, the poet may expertly conjure an intricately ... for Milton’s Paradise Lost as well as Dante’s Inferno. Aeneas is Virgil’s hero in this epic poem, and we follow the ...

Besides being a poet, at various times he was a politician and a knight ... No one was more aware of the difficulties of choosing a good guide than Dante himself. He chose Virgil for his journey ...

What they felt in regard to the poet can be best understood by comparing ... The development of Latin into the language of Cicero and Virgil was gradually and laboriously accomplished under ...

In the “Inferno”, Virgil and Dante meet the two lovers in the hell that punishes ... Lana Del Rey’s song, “Body Electric”, references influential American poet Walt Whitman’s poem “I sing the body ...