In Dante 2021, a three-part BBC audio show about how the poet still steers the present, the idea looms large that hell, heaven and purgatory are right here on earth, often within us.

Delhi's Connaught Place features four circles, each with unique sights. The Middle Circle, despite renovations, retains a desolate charm with its peeling walls and forgotten shops. Per Dante’s ...

Going to hell is usually a tough break. But the poet Michael Palma doesn't seem to mind. In 2002, he published a translation of Dante's Inferno – the first book in Dante's epic poem The Divine ...