Giusepi Plazzi, an Italian academic, recently wrote an unconventional essay on Dante and his famous Divine Comedy.  Plazzi’s academic background might have suggested an odd approach: rather than working in… Read more »

Have you heard that Dan Brown published a book called Inferno? Well, one of our best and most searing critics, Clive James, certainly did. James recently translated the original Inferno, which was… Read more »

Recently, there have been a number of reports of the hellish conditions endured by the translators of Dan Brown’s upcoming blockbuster, Inferno. According to the Independent: The translators are said… Read more »

According to a human rights group that advises the UN, Dante’s Divine Comedy should be banned from Italian schools because it is ‘offensive and discriminatory’. Speaking for the group Gherush92,… Read more »