A sculpture of Italian poet, writer and philosopher Dante Alighieri by Enrico Pazzi in Piazza Santa ... which dutifully carries them down to the eighth circle of hell. We’re supposed to believe this, ...

Over the centuries, Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy has ... narrowing concentric “circles of Hell” to which Dante and Virgil descend, finally reaching the lair of a three-headed Prince ...

The Middle Circle, despite renovations, retains a desolate charm with its peeling walls and forgotten shops. Per Dante’s Inferno, each of the Hell’s nine concentric circles in the epic poem ...

She was the great love of the Early Renaissance Italian poet Dante Alighieri. He adored her so much that he cast her as his divine guide to the celestial spheres of heaven in the last book of the ...