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There's a new translation of Dante's 'The Divine Comedy.' Why?

So that it will be worthy of salvation. The challenge to approaching a translation of Dante's original Italian this way is that it means you can't concentrate on three lines at a time – you have to ...
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Radu Jude to Mix Porn Reels From Italy's National Film Museum With AI Voice Reciting ‘The Divine Comedy' in Celebratory Short

In the latest twist of how generative AI is impacting the film world, Romanian auteur Radu Jude ("Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn") is making a short based on vintage porn reels found in the archives ...
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Poet Mary Jo Bang reaches the end of her 20-year journey through Dante's 'Divine Comedy'

What makes a poem more than 700 years old feel relevant today? The poet Mary Jo Bang is uniquely qualified to answer that question because she has spent the last 20 years translating Dante's "Divine ...
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The women who appear in Dante’s “Divine Comedy” are finally getting their due, 700 years later

When Dante Alighieri died 700 years ago, on September 14, 1321, he had just put his final flourishes on the “Divine Comedy,” a monumental poem that would inspire readers for centuries. The “Divine ...
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Dante's Divine Comedy to float among the stars

ROME, June 10 (Reuters) - Italian epic poet Dante is going to heaven - again. Dante, Italy’s greatest poet, divided his monumental Divine Comedy into three parts – Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. The ...