Budget cuts and a lack of qualified faculty have forced the University of Florence to remove its course on Dantean philology and criticism from the offerings…
Dante
by Gabi Logan | Fri, 07/20/2012 - 04:30
Beginning tonight at 9.30 pm with the 11th Canto of Dante's Inferno (Hell), 22 performances of Roberto Benigni's hit show TuttoDante (Everything Dante) in…
by Gabi Logan | Fri, 07/13/2012 - 08:47
Dante—one short word, one mononym—because of the words written by one man, has come to mean so many things. Beauty. Complexity. Man’s quest in life. Redemption…
by ITALY | Wed, 03/21/2012 - 06:12
words by Elizabeth Ganley-RoperThe anti-racist group and advisor to the United Nations, Gherush92, has declared that Dante Alighieri’s infamous Divine Comedy…
by Pat Eggleton | Mon, 02/08/2010 - 04:12
The video game “Dante’s Inferno” [Electronic Arts] which has already generated 10,000 web pages and has a following of 20,000 fans on facebook, has been…
by ITALY | Sun, 03/08/2009 - 04:02
Oscar-winning actor and director Roberto Benigni is set to take Dante around the world with a new tour beginning in Paris on Friday.The Tuscan comic wowed…
by Michelle Fabio | Thu, 12/11/2008 - 10:10
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to tour Dante Alighieri's circles of hell? Well if you have a free weekend and you're in Italy, you can find out…
by ITALY | Sat, 10/11/2008 - 03:09
A Palermo serial thief was caught Friday with a copy of Dante's Divine Comedy under the seat of his motorbike.Fabrizio Tuminiello told police after an…
by ITALY | Mon, 01/15/2007 - 05:32
Italy's greatest poet Dante didn't have a big nose after all, a neglected Florence fresco indicates - confirming a sensational new reconstruction made earlier…
by ITALY | Mon, 03/27/2006 - 05:16
The tomb of Italy's greatest poet, Dante, is to be restored.The tomb in the northeastern city of Ravenna will be cleaned up in a seven-month project starting…
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