Over the centuries, Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy has often been declared the pinnacle of the medieval literary mind.

In this lively and engaging book, he explains how the Commedia (along ... One of the favourite passages for readers of this stamp was the speech Dante puts into the mouth of Ulysses in the Inferno – a ...

Mr. Luzzi says little about the German Romantics’ cult of Dante, and a shortcoming of his book is that there is ... from a speech in Canto27 of “Inferno” by a deceitful politician-turned ...