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Dante Alighieri (c. 1265–1321) was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. In the Divine Comedy, considered the most important poem of the Middle Ages, Dante created a syncretic blend of Christian traditions with the model of pagan epic heroes who journeyed into the underworld to begin a cycle of symbolic death and spiritual rebirth.

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How the World’s Greatest Catholic Poet Healed This Ex-Catholic’s Heart

Writer Rod Dreher, a senior editor and blogger at The American Conservative, is author of the new memoir “How Dante Can Save Your Life.”

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Dante and the Divine Comedy: He Took Us on a Tour of Hell

Dante’s vision of the Afterlife in The Divine Comedy influenced the Renaissance, the Reformation and helped give us the modern world.

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Dante’s Hell, with Those Who Can Relate

Ron Jenkins, a professor at Wesleyan University, created a program in which inmates study and perform parts of Dante’s “Inferno.”

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Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy

Within the Christian tradition, perhaps no written work has had more influence on the belief that human beings possess an immortal soul than Dante’s monumental poem.

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What’s the Best Way to Read the Divine Comedy If You Don’t Know Italian? a Tour of Translation

A guide to the question of which translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy might a reader select.

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Dante Turns Seven Hundred and Fifty

It’s hard to convey the importance of Dante’s place in Italian culture, but there are many possible explanations for the poet's enduring hold on the country and the world.

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