Timed to this year’s edition of Frieze London, the contemporary gallery Unit presented a group exhibition inspired by Dante’s Inferno. She was the great love of the Early Renaissance Italian poet ...

T.S. Eliot said: “Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.” Hamlet speaks of the afterlife as “the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.” Dante ...

Along the journey of our life half way, I found myself again in a dark wood wherein the straight road no longer lay.” With these words, Florentine poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) opens his celebrated ...

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 ...

The nightmarish visions of Dante Alighieri, with their many circles of hell, ringed in blood and fire, would seem perhaps a natural draw for politicians who traffic in the rhetoric of us versus them, ...