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

WELLFLEET — When you walk into Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater for the premiere of Kevin Rice’s “Sacco & Vanzetti’s Divine Comedy,” your eyes are immediately drawn to the 12 white, featureless, ...

Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the final installment and continues her style of lively, lyrical translation.

Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise Seymour Chwast, Bloomsbury, $20 (128p) ISBN 978-1-60819-084-3 ...