Over the centuries, Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy has often been declared the pinnacle of the medieval literary mind.

The fragment certainly then belongs in the "special section" of my Illustrations to Dante's Inferno (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994) and among the dozen or so works treated in my "The ...

In “Alone Again,” the protagonist pleads to be taken “down to your altitude,” evoking Dante’s gradual journey down the circles of Hell. “Too Late” explicitly states, “We’re in ...