A t Caffe Paradiso, the people behind Dante have swapped perfect Negronis in Greenwich Village for perfect espresso in Nolita ...

A reader sends this lengthy but very, very helpful essay by Peter Kalkavage about Dante’s Paradiso. If you aren’t reading it, or even if you are, this is a great overview of the canticle, and ...

Today I bring our study of Dante’s Paradiso to an end. I’m eager to get into Inferno, so I can blog the entire thing before I leave for Florence at the end of the month.Plus, I see diminishing ...

Florence - In the Hall of Five Hundred at the Palazzo Vecchio – the city hall of Florence – tourists are staring upward, trying to spot the words cerca trova – “seek and you shall find ...

Completed just before Dante died in 1321, it consists of three parts—Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Divine Comedy is a long poem recounting the author’s journey among the damned in ...