This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Its garden is the poem’s otherworld—based on the ancient geocentric cosmos and Christian eschatology—and its toads are Dante’s lifelike settings and ...

He wrote about the experience; it’s called the Divine Comedy ... and poet like Virgil, whom Dante idolized, to reach Dante where he was, lost in the woods. Virgil took Dante as far towards ...

Luzzi just published his own translation of a different work by Dante – Vita Nuova. It's a lesser known work, much slimmer and more digestible than The Divine Comedy. It depicts a young Dante ...