Longtime CBS News Chicago anchorman Walter Jacobson was honored Thursday by the Joint Civic Commission of Italian Americans.

Born in Florence, Italy, in 1265, Dante Alighieri—his full name was Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri, but he's better known simply as Dante—is considered one of the most important poets in ...

The Divine Comedy is a 14th century poem that has never lost its edge. Dante Alighieri's great work tells the tale of the author's trail through hell — each and every circle of it — purgatory ...

Most people think of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” as a medieval literary artifact, a classic more admired than read. Believe it or not, it’s the greatest self-help book of all time. Two years ...

Dante Alighieri became an icon of western literature with his writing, and his magnum opus was the Divine Comedy, which described a journey into heaven, hell, and purgatory. His description of ...

She was the great love of the Early Renaissance Italian poet Dante Alighieri. He adored her so much that he cast her as his divine guide to the celestial spheres of heaven in the last book of the ...