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 ...

Consummation of the Paradiso. Beatrice, who has been Dante's guide through the "Paradiso," now leads him to look upon the great white light of Truth absolute.

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 ...