Dante Alighieri

He may be the perfect fit, but this is an imperfect world. And so an agonizing game of musical chairs — some would argue a disgusting waltz of riches — plays on through this final weekend before Christmas. Would Mark Teixeira look terrific in...

Cardinal Avery Dulles, a former professor at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., who was born into a family of elite Protestant diplomats and became one of the country's most prominent Catholic theologians, died Friday at an infirmary at Fordham...

Billy Joel had his speech topic lined up weeks in advance for an appearance Thursday at the National Press Club - "Why I studiously avoid political endorsements in my career." But after performing with Bruce Springsteen at a Barack Obama fundraiser...

WASHINGTON - Billy Joel had his speech topic lined up weeks in advance for an appearance yesterday at the National Press Club: "Why I studiously avoid political endorsements." But after performing with Bruce Springsteen at a Barack Obama fundraiser...

Classics can not only change your life, but even help to shape an entire country's self-image. Here are some classic 'national works' from the U.S. and beyond to put on your summer reading list. China: Wu Cheng'en's Journey to the West, 1590s One of the...

Jack Nicholson, playing a terminally ill billionaire, interrupts a board meeting to ask someone in a tone of withering impatience, "Did you ever read 'The Divine Comedy'? Dante Alighieri's journey into hell?" In point of fact, signor Alighieri also...

The great medieval poet Dante Alighieri would seem an unlikely gumshoe. He certainly proves to be an unusual one in Giulio Leoni's novel The Mosaic Crimes, which itself is as odd a thriller as you are likely to come upon. The crimes Dante finds himself...

My family's first California home was a mental institution, so I never found it odd that our next one was a madhouse. Our parents purchased 1788 Belmont Lane 45 years ago, and my brother, Tim, was still living there two weekends back, when an avalanche of...

Artistic geniuses from all walks of the arts have mythologized their sources of inspiration. Sculptor Auguste Rodin transformed Camille Claudel into a timeless masterpiece, poet Dante Alighieri deified his Beatrice, and choreographer George Balanchine...