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

In “Inferno,” the film focuses on Dante’s struggles as he encounters the lust of Francesca, the political gluttony of Ciacco, the dangerous loves of Ulysses and the cannibalistic violence of ...

But its long-term reception is about a great deal more than politics. Joseph Luzzi has already ... passages for readers of this stamp was the speech Dante puts into the mouth of Ulysses in the Inferno ...