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 ...

As a young man, I converted with great enthusiasm to Catholicism, and for 13 years was an ardent Catholic, eager to argue for the faith with all comers. The idea of not being a Catholic was utterly ...

Every arthouse filmmaker with staggering ambition gets their “Heaven’s Gate,” their “Southland Tales,” their, yes, “Megalopolis,” a movie so boundlessly overachieving that it winds up alienating ...

The Italian Cultural Garden in Cleveland's Rockefeller Park — one of the most beautiful spots in the city — has been adorned with a newly dedicated bronze sculpture of the Italian medieval poet Dante ...

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VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Dante Alighieri, the medieval Italian poet, didn’t spare popes and other Catholic prelates in “Divine Comedy,” his 14th-century masterwork detailing his imaginary journey from ...

The man who created our vision of hell can be seen for the first time in more than 700 years after scientists rebuilt his face using his skull. Dante Alighieri became an icon of western literature ...

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Dante's descendant Sperello di Serego Alighieri (L) and the poet's deathmask. Photo: Sperello Di Serego Algieri/Digitalmamma824/flickr To honour the 750th year since the birth of Italy's most famous ...

(WXYZ) — The newly restored Dante Alighieri monument was officially unveiled today on Belle Isle by the Consulate of Italy in Detroit and the Dante Aligheri Society ...

Timed to this year’s edition of Frieze London, the contemporary gallery Unit presented a group exhibition inspired by Dante’s Inferno. She was the great love of the Early Renaissance Italian poet ...