Mary Jo Bang’s interpretation updates this 14th-century poem for 20th-century readers. Bang makes no attempt to pass herself off as a scholar of medieval Italian, and defends her unfamiliarity with ...

And the Rogue Theatre a very brave company. Baliani has adapted “Purgatorio,” the second part of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” for the stage. The Rogue’s season-ender is that adaptation. Read “Purgatorio” ...

“Purgatorio,” from Italian theater director Romeo Castellucci and the Societas Raffaello Sanzio theater company, is an experimental exploration of the meaning of suffering and forgiveness. The play, ...

Mary Jo Bang joins Kevin Young to to discuss her translation of Dante’s Purgatorio, excerpts of which are featured on newyorker.com. Bang is a poet who has received the National Book Critics Circle ...

Dante’s Inferno celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. Not that there’s been any fireworks or cake. Visceral Games’ 2010 hack-and-slash, which saw a crusader named Dante battle through the nine ...

One of the difficulties of any discussion of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” is that if anyone has actually read the critter, they most likely have read only the first third of it, that is, the “Inferno.” ...

Although “The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri has inspired countless artistic creations, particularly of his “Inferno” canto, until recently no one had produced a prominent theater adaptation of the ...

When I first published a version of Dante’s Inferno in 2014 set at the University of Essex, more than one reviewer pointed out the connection to Joyce. As with Ulysses, I wasn’t so much translating ...

Dante’s Purgatorio was the planned sequel to Visceral Games’ 2010 action-adventure game Dante’s Inferno. The game would have seen protagonist Dante ascending Mount Purgatory to reunite with Beatrice ...

Dante and Virgil climb Mount Purgatory. Dramatisation of Dante's epic poem. Stars John Hurt, Blake Ritson and David Warner.