Essay compares the modern Hell created in "Inferno," written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, to the Hell in Dante's medieval "Inferno."

Lengthy article examines the possibility that Dante's hell was modeled on the organization of the chancery of Brunetto Latini.

Read the entire text of this analytical book that takes a look at the images of money used in the poetry of Dante and Chaucer.

Explication of certain passages of the "Inferno" uses Dante's employment of specific words to examine the link between Christ and Lucifer.

Atlantic Monthly article compares Robert Pinsky's translation of the "Inferno" to that of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. See excerpts of both.

Find out how Chaucer used Dante's "Divine Comedy" in his own "Canterbury Tales," and read the portions of the Italian poem that influenced him.

Article attempts to find the connection between Dante's "sorrowful people" in canto 3 of the "Inferno" and today's post-modern sorrow.

Lecture delivered at the University of Virginia's Jefferson Rotunda in 1986 by a Yale professor analyzes Dante's fifth canto of the "Inferno."

Journal is dedicated to the study of Dante's works. Read past articles and lecture texts, search the database, or find out how to subscribe.

Study guide explores Dante Alighieri s "Inferno," which touched on God, Rome, and politics. Find an overview of the 34 cantos, as well as study questions.

University of Virginia lecture given by a University of Wisconsin professor describes canto 8 of Dante's "Inferno."

Essay describes the significance of the twentieth canto of Dante's "Inferno," the canto devoted to seers and diviners.

Theodore Roosevelt's article on Dante's use of the ordinary events of his time period.