It's a lesser known work, much slimmer and more digestible than The Divine Comedy. It depicts a young Dante falling in love with his muse, Beatrice, who dies in the middle of the book.

The poet Dante Aligheri’s “Commedia” — it picked up “Divine” somewhere along the way — may seem an unlikely contender for relevance. Written 800 years ago, it can feel watermarked by the Middle Ages.

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 ...

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 8 - Two pages from the first edition of the Divine Comedy were found during the transfer of the State Archives of La Spezia. Mayor Pierluigi Peracchini announced the find in the ...

Giles Fraser and guests hear from Dillon Mapletoft, the writer and creator of hit comedy Everyone Else Burns, to explore why religion is such rich territory for comedy. Show more Faith based ...

THEATRE-GOERS needing spiritual sustenance can look forward to a ‘riotous’ musical ‘divine comedy’ featuring leper-tending nuns recovering from a mass soup poisoning event which claims 52 of its ...

Blake Ritson, David Warner and John Hurt star in Stephen Wyatt's dramatisation of Dante's epic poem - the story of one man's incredible journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise ...

In an era in which technology seems to dominate the lives of the youngest, a 77-year-old from Foggia, Giuseppe Mancini, known ...