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 ...

“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, ...

As we look back on Lent and prepare for Easter, it's a good time to take a walk with Dante Alighieri, the poet from Florence who wrote his masterpiece trilogy, The Divine Comedy, in the early 14th ...

“This mountain’s of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind.” The speaker is the Roman poet Virgil, Dante’s companion and guide, in scaling the ...

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 ...

That’s my daughter Nora and her favorite hen, Violet, in hand. We had just finished listening to the BBC’s one-hour radio play of Dante’s Inferno, and I think Nora needed reassurance. Follow that link ...

Purgatorio, the Halloween pop-up nightclub/performance theater by The Box’s Simon Hammerstein and Randy Weiner, opened this past weekend for its two week run in Times Square. Purgatorio promised to ...