The second thing would be this notion of something falling all the way from space and hitting Earth. We know about meteorites ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The Divine Comedy” is divided into the “Inferno,” “Purgatorio,” and “Paradiso.” Simply put, Burbery argues that Dante’s Inferno ...

For centuries, Dante Alighieri’s Inferno has been read as a moral and spiritual descent, a journey into sin, punishment, and divine justice. Timothy Burbery of Marshall University now argues that the ...

Burbery argues that Dante, by portraying Satan’s fall as a real collision with devastating material consequences, effectively pushed against that older worldview. In this reading, celestial bodies are ...