Few singers have been as widely heard but remain as little known as Ron Dante, who is now on the “Happy Together Tour” as the ...

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

After a friend’s death, a medieval literature professor learns to love the gym — and finds unexpected connections to his ...

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.

In a highly compressed version of Dante's Divine Comedy, Chwast takes us on a whirlwind tour of hell, purgatory, and heaven.