Today I bring our study of Dante’s Paradiso to an end. I’m eager to get into Inferno, so I can blog the entire thing before I leave for Florence at the end of the month. Plus, I see ...

A reader sends this lengthy but very, very helpful essay by Peter Kalkavage about Dante’s Paradiso. If you aren’t reading it, or even if you are, this is a great overview of the canticle ...

Through this allegory, Dante comments on humankind’s attempts to maintain beautiful illusions at whatever cost. In Paradiso, Dante uses this dream to reveal the futility of this quest ...

In Paradiso, the third section of the Comedy, Dante visits the planets and constellations where blessed souls dwell. The celestial spheres look vague in this painting, but Dante had great interest ...

Dante Paradiso is a career Foreign Service Officer. The views expressed are the author’s own and not necessarily those of the U.S. Department of State or the U.S. government. ‘Sometimes you ...

It is moral plagues that plague Dante, so to speak: moral maladies prevail. On the question of overpopulation, Brown is drawing from the middle of the Paradiso where Dante’s critique of his ...

Although the poet’s parents never appear in his works, Dante mentions in the Paradiso an ancestor, Cacciaguida, said to have been knighted by the 12th-century king Conrad III during the Crusades.

She picked the opening canto of the Paradiso, in which Dante describes his ascent through the circle of fire and his approach toward God: I was within the heaven that receives more of His light ...

RELATED: Pope Francis reduces cardinal wages as Vatican finances struggle due to pandemic In “Paradiso,” the section of Dante’s poem set in heaven, popes are outnumbered by the saints who ...

Dante: Inferno to Paradise is available to stream ... through the 3 realms of the afterlife-- Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso-- it will tell of a harrowing journey, of a descent into the depths ...