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Dante Alighieri

June 2023

  • The hell panel of Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights (c 1450-1516), which people spend 33 seconds looking at – about 17 more seconds than they spend viewing the Eden panel

    Hell on earth – how a place of torture has haunted us culturally over time

    From Bosch to Dante to Sartre, and from Hell’s Angels to Hell’s Kitchen to Hellraiser, visions of the infernal location and condition still resonate

December 2022

  • Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus at the Uffizi, Florence

    Book of the day
    Botticelli’s Secret by Joseph Luzzi review – a great mystery in the picture

  • Clive Myrie

    Snapshot of 2022
    In Kyiv, I saw Dante under sandbags – a modern image of the hell of war

    Clive Myrie

February 2022

  • VE Day, Cardiff, Wales, UK - 08 May 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ben Evans/Huw Evans/REX/Shutterstock (10640847a) Residents on Milton Road in Penarth during a socially distant street party to mark VE Day. VE Day, Cardiff, Wales, UK - 08 May 2020

    We need to build a ‘radical politics of place’

    Letters: Communities of one sort or another make us who we are, write Jane Roberts and Sebastian Kramer. Plus a letter from Dan Edwards

December 2021

  • two glass recycling containers transformed in tribute to Dante and The Divine Comedy as part of the Urban Galleries of the Ideal City in Rome, promoted by the cultural association Progetto Goldstein.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about self-improvement

    In time for new year resolutions, a cultural historian chooses some of the best guides to making a better life, dating back to some of our earliest literature

October 2021

  • Devilish … Edward Watson as Dante behind Fumi Kaneko as Satan in Inferno: Pilgrimfrom The Dante Project by Wayne McGregor, Thomas Adès and Tacita Dean.

    The Dante Project review – Wayne McGregor moves heaven, earth and hell

    The Divine Comedy is brilliantly reimagined by McGregor with music by Thomas Adès, sets by Tacita Dean and a poetic send-off for Edward Watson
  • Edward Watson artists of The Royal Ballet in Wayne McGregors The Dante Project 2019 Photograph by Cheryl Mann

    Upping the Dante: Wayne McGregor and Tacita Dean’s Divine Comedy dance

    The choreographer and artist discuss creating The Dante Project for the Royal Ballet – and their own visions of heaven and hell
  • Beata Beatrix, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882).. Image shot 1905. Exact date unknown.<br>PXD4NP Beata Beatrix, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882).. Image shot 1905. Exact date unknown. (Elizabeth Siddal)

    Pass notes
    ‘Bad art friend’: should fiction writers ever lift stories from other people’s lives?

    Great writers have always been inspired by friends and lovers, but a viral article has revived the moral arguments around muses. In the age of the internet, does using someone else’s story feel like a violation?

May 2021

  • Beatrice by William Dyce (H65.2 x W49.4cm).

    The Great British Art Tour
    The Great British Art Tour: Gladstone’s fallen woman gives life to Dante’s muse

    With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today: William Dyce’s Beatrice, in Aberdeen

April 2021

  • daffodil in Glenariffe Forest Park in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Because by Grace Schulman

    A complicated song of praise for a world that is part heaven and part hell

March 2021

  • An 1865 sculpture of Dante Alighieri by Enrico Pazzi by the Basilica di Santa Croce in Florence

    Italians defend Dante from claims he was 'light years' behind Shakespeare

    Leaders rally in support of ‘father of Italian language’ after withering comments in German newspaper

February 2021

  • Dante Alighieri.

    Dante's descendant to take part in 'retrial' of poet's 1302 corruption case

  • An illustration for Dante's Inferno

    To hell with Brexit and Westminster

January 2021

  • Illustration of Dante’s Paradiso by Gustave Dore (1832-1883).

    The Guardian view on Dante: heavenly wisdom for our troubled times

  • Ulisse and Diomede, the fraudulent advisers, in a drawing of The Divine Comedy by Federico Zuccari.

    Italy begins year of Dante anniversary events with virtual Uffizi exhibition

December 2020

  • A detail from Alasdair Gray’s Hell.

    Book of the day
    Paradise: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Three by Alasdair Gray review – a fitting finale

    Published posthumously, the last of three Dante translations reveals Gray’s powers of insight and invention

October 2019

  • Kenan Malik

    Harold Bloom was right to extol great literature, but was often blind to who was neglected

    Kenan Malik
    The critic, who died last week, polarised opinion

August 2018

  • Dante and his Poem the 'Divine Comedy', 1465. Artist: Domenico di Michelino<br>Dante and his Poem the 'Divine Comedy', 1465. Found in the collection of the Duomo, Florence, Italy. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

    Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Journey Without End by Ian Thomson – review

    This playful exploration of Dante’s masterpiece breaks down its influence on writers, poets and film-makers over the centuries

June 2018

  • Love frustrated ... detail from Dante and Beatrice by Henry Holiday.

    Top 10s
    From Dante to I Love Dick: top 10 books about unrequited love

  • Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon in the film version of The Lovely Bones.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about the afterlife

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