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Cantos I. to X. A Literal Metrical Translation. By J. C. PEABODY. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1867. “Art thou, then, that Virgil and that fountain which pours abroad so rich a stream of speech? I ...

Dante with Virgil as his guide begin their descent into Inferno, through the Gates of Hell. We hear one of the lines best known from the Divine Comedy: "Abandon All Hope, You Who Enter Here." ...

Dante's Inferno, the poem, is no more than just a tourist's view of Hell, with political propaganda that's kind of fascinating as a history lesson. Dante faints all the time, and there is no ...

From Botticelli and Rodin to Gogol and Woody Allen, artists of all stripes have been drawn to Dante's vivid depiction of his journey down into hell, guided by Virgil, and back up through purgatory ...

T.S. Eliot said: “Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.” Hamlet speaks of the afterlife as “the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns ...

The idea to bring Dante, studied in all Italian middle and high schools, to popular venues comes from the 53-year-old Benigni's conviction that the Florentine poet (1265-1321) is thoroughly modern ...

Dante’s struggle is clear in the movement of his body, in his back-and-forth steps: He wants to join Virgil so that they can climb out of hell “to see again the stars,” as “Inferno” ends ...

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Dante and Virgil travel through the "pouches of evil" on the eighth circle of Hell where they meet various practitioners of fraud, including seducers, simonists, and grafters.