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” ...

So begins Purgatorio, the second part of the 14th-century poem La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) by Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy consists of three parts: hell, purgatory and heaven. Written ...

The Tucson playwright’s adaptation of the middle canto of poet Dante Alighieri’s classic “Divine Comedy” has its world premiere on The Rogue Theatre stage, opening in previews today. It’s the vivid ...

Today, the first day of Orthodox Lent, we start preparing for our journey through Dante’s Purgatorio, which commences on Ash Wednesday, the start of Western Lent. As I’ve been saying, you don’t have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

DEAN STANLEY, fresh from the study of the Divine Comedy, declared, in his enthusiasm, that the Purgatorio was the most religious book he had ever read. While it lacks the dramatic force and the dark ...

Famed artist and graphic designer Chwast has turned his talents to the graphic novel form for the first time, and we can all be happy about it. In a highly compressed version of Dante's Divine Comedy, ...