The poet of the 'Inferno' suffered through papal intrigue and exile—and people have been fighting over his bones for 700 years.
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Thomas Christopher Funk, formerly of Provincetown and Wellfleet, died on March 11, 2024 surrounded by his family at Holy Cross Health in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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HARTVILLE – “My family's time in Sunrise was eventful, tragic, and short,” Dave Walsh said at a meeting of the Sunrise Historic and...
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The following is part two of a four-part series taken from a speech delivered by Michael Knowles at the National Intercollegiate Studies...
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Every year, we celebrate a dying and rising God who fulfills the hopes of ages past.
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Seven centuries after the poet's death, Judith Thurman on why we may finally be ready for his epic of punishment and penance.
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In “The Divine Comedy,” the 14th-century poem by Dante Alighieri that is one of the foundational works of Western literature, the Roman poet...
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Dante Alighieri died 700 years ago, and Italy is ready to celebrate the author whose epic poem through Hell, Purgatory and Heaven has influenced the art,...
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James Matthew Wilson. Saturday, May 7, 2022. This past year marked the seven-hundredth anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, the greatest of Italian...
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Italy's most famous poet, Dante Alighieri, was forced from his native town of Florence because of his political affiliation.
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