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 ...

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A near century-old monument of Italian poet Dante Alighieri on Belle Isle gets restored. The near century-old monument of Italian poet Dante Alighieri on Belle Isle in Detroit has been restored. The ...

One of the beauties of public art is that it both tells us who we are and reminds us of who we were. Backtrack a century, and we were irate about a bust of the great poet Dante Alighieri, ordered in ...

Daniel Fitzpatrick’s new translation of Dante Alighieri’s epic poem, “Paradiso,”is available in three volumes along with illustrations of 100 bronze sculptures — one for each canto in the poem — ...

Though Scorsese has cameoed in many of his movies and occasionally performed in films by other directors – he played Vincent van Gogh in a segment of Akira Kurosawa’s 1990 film “Dreams” and also ...

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 ...

David Wright article on upcoming staging of Liszt's Symphony on Dante's Divine Comedy and Rachmaninoff's one-act opera Francesca da Rimini by American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botsein, at ...