But who guides the guide? British Dante scholar Prue Shaw takes readers by the hand with a new, accessible book, "Dante: The Essential Commedia." ...

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We generally think of hell as hot, but with the polar vortex sweeping through the country, many Americans may feel that hell is these bleak, cold days of mid-winter. Sally Franson is a write who's ...

Halfway through the course of his life, a man finds himself lost in a dark wood. A guide arrives to help him, but in order to be saved, the man must descend into the terrifying depths of Hell, where ...

Ahead of October, Unit presents a new group exhibition inspired by Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century epic Dante’s Inferno. The poem takes readers on a gripping journey through the nine circles of Hell, ...

Writer Sally Franson compares Minneapolis winters to the many stages of hell in Dante's Inferno. She tells NPR's Scott Simon that reading the epic... A Winter Straight Out Of Dante's 'Inferno' SCOTT ...