St. John was a Russian Orthodox priest who lived almost 700 years after Dante Alighieri, the Roman Catholic layman, but they shared a view of the afterlife and the working of grace. For Dante ...

Dante's Divine Comedy reveals its 21st-century meanings to Katya Adler as she travels through the regions of the afterlife with three expert guides. With Michael Sheen as Dante.

What’s the exhibition about? The Italian medieval author Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is known for his fantastical reimagining of the worlds of the Christian afterlife, the Commedia (Divine Comedy).

He wants to inspire in students a love of Dante's great work and a desire to make Dante's journey through the afterlife a companion in their journeys through this life. He wants as well to introduce ...