And the Rogue Theatre a very brave company. Baliani has adapted “Purgatorio,” the second part of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” for the stage. The Rogue’s season-ender is that adaptation. Read “Purgatorio” ...

Mary Jo Bang’s interpretation updates this 14th-century poem for 20th-century readers. Bang makes no attempt to pass herself off as a scholar of medieval Italian, and defends her unfamiliarity with ...

“Purgatorio,” from Italian theater director Romeo Castellucci and the Societas Raffaello Sanzio theater company, is an experimental exploration of the meaning of suffering and forgiveness. The play, ...

Dante’s Inferno celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. Not that there’s been any fireworks or cake. Visceral Games’ 2010 hack-and-slash, which saw a crusader named Dante battle through the nine ...

When I first published a version of Dante’s Inferno in 2014 set at the University of Essex, more than one reviewer pointed out the connection to Joyce. As with Ulysses, I wasn’t so much translating ...

One of the difficulties of any discussion of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” is that if anyone has actually read the critter, they most likely have read only the first third of it, that is, the “Inferno.” ...

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) ...

Today's poet-translators tend to envision themselves as characters in revelatory narratives of their own devising, heroes whose devotion to ancient writers and original works leads them in quest of ...

Dante’s Purgatorio was the planned sequel to Visceral Games’ 2010 action-adventure game Dante’s Inferno. The game would have seen protagonist Dante ascending Mount Purgatory to reunite with Beatrice ...