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 ...

Is Hell locked from the inside? Dante seems to think so. Few residents of the Inferno object. From time to time they pitch a sob story, but none of them has a sense of the infinite, and so they ...

Not everyone in the 14th century was charmed by the poem’s novelty or by Dante’s creative use of tradition in its three-part journey through hell (“Inferno”), purgatory (“Purgatorio”) ...