Born in Florence, Italy, in 1265, Dante Alighieri—his full name was Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri, but he's better known simply as Dante—is considered one of the most important poets in history ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. But Dante’s story appears to have no end in sight. A few years ago an Italian human rights organization, which ...

VATICAN CITY — In a letter for the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, Pope Francis said that the mystery of Christ’s Incarnation is the “true heart and inspiration” of Dante’s great ...

"All hope abandon, ye who enter in!" - Canto III of Dante's Inferno. Dante imagined Hell like an inverted cone, with its circles gradually becoming smaller nearer to Earth's core. Each circle was ...