Dante Alighieri

All the literary adaptations at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

 
By Brittany Allen  February 3, 2025
The Annotated Nightstand

The Annotated Nightstand: What Rosa Alcalá Is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian  December 20, 2024
Italian Literature

A Riveting, Timeless Journey Through the Afterlife: Inside the World of Dante’s Divine Comedy

By Michael Palma  December 2, 2024
Daily Fiction

The Divine Comedy

By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 2, 2024
Reading Lists

Satanic Sympathies: On the Demon Depictions That Helped Jamie Quarto Write Two-Step Devil

By Jamie Quatro  October 7, 2024
Travel

Houses from literature that Airbnb could definitely trick us into booking.

By James Folta  May 3, 2024
In Conversation

Sculpting Sound: Alison C. Rollins on Silence, Afrofuturism, and Writing Poems Across Time

By Literary Hub  April 8, 2024
Cosmology

On the “Inverted Cosmos”—From Aristotle to the Middle Ages

By William Egginton  August 30, 2023
Feminist History

A Feminist Before Feminism: A Reading List in Honor of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Boston

By Emily Franklin  April 13, 2023
Psychology

How Anxiety Evolved Through the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe

By Tracy Dennis-Tiwary  May 18, 2022
The Hub

A new digital humanities project celebrates Dante’s impact on art around the world.

By Walker Caplan  July 15, 2021
The Hub

A nun just unearthed a previously unknown Dante manuscript.

By Walker Caplan  July 8, 2021
The Hub

What the fresh hell? Magnum is releasing a Dante-themed ice cream bar.

By Walker Caplan  April 26, 2021
Feature

40 of the Best Villains in Literature

By Emily Temple  June 11, 2018
Feature

Notorious Literary Muses from Best to Worst

By Emily Temple  March 9, 2017
Feature

We Sent a Poet To Watch Inferno So You Don’t Have To

By Peter Nowogrodzki  November 17, 2016
Essay

Are We Different People in Different Languages?

By Ana Menéndez  November 19, 2015
Excerpt

Inferno: Canto XIV

By Lit Hub Excerpts  August 10, 2015

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