The gates to hell in Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy tell us to “abandon all hope, yet who enter here”. Despite its unfunny premise, ‘La Commedia’ ends well, with its protagonist Dante ...

Kemp is insistent that it is Dante’s divine light that appears in all the works he cites The next two chapters pit the vision of God in the Paradiso against artists’ works, first by Italian ...

I would save the Divine Comedy”. ... On his way to the Empyrean, Dante comes across a friend, Charles Martel, who tells Dante his story, a tale of treachery that mirrors Dante’s own.

The Divine Comedy is an epic exploration of faith and devotion, ... Those things seem about as far away to me as empyrean must have seemed to Dante as he prepared to pass through the gates of hell.

Books Clive James Divine Comedy translation: An excerpt from the introduction, plus Inferno 1, 5, and 26. An introduction to the beauty, variety, and drive of Dante’s epic poem—plus three ...

Kemp is insistent that it is Dante’s divine light that appears in all the works he cites The next two chapters pit the vision of God in the Paradiso against artists’ works, first by Italian ...