Oscar Isaac is doing a bit of time traveling these days, cinematically at least, with three new films that all debuted at ...

During a stolen hour in the spring of 1944, when Primo Levi had been a slave laborer at Auschwitz for about three months, a French prisoner asked Levi to teach him some Italian. Levi, a young chemist ...

What is hell? A place of fire, a human invention or a state of the soul? The Rev. Robert Fowler unpacks centuries of belief ...

Most people have read or at least heard of a man named Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). He was a literary giant in his lifetime and is still known today in many circles as “The Children’s Poet” ...

Timed to this year’s edition of Frieze London, the contemporary gallery Unit presented a group exhibition inspired by Dante’s Inferno. She was the great love of the Early Renaissance Italian poet ...

Most people have read or at least heard of a man named Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). He was a literary giant in his ...

The sixth day of the relay crossed Tuscany from Grosseto to Florence, linking UNESCO landscapes and historic cities in a ...

Skate Story takes that to an extreme. If Dante Alighieri had known that skateboarding could be a weapon of metaphysical ...

Dante Alighieri thought he could write himself out of exile. In 1300, while serving on a governing committee in his beloved Florence, the poet was involved in a factional dispute among city leaders.

Franco Vaccari, an Italian conceptual artist whose experiments with photography expanded the medium's possibilities, has died ...

What are the best medieval games? Rare is a videogame that doesn't feature at least one sword, suit of armor, or roast chicken. Still, they're usually mixed in with bearded hermits slinging magic ...

Most people have read or at least heard of a man named Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). He was a literary giant in his ...