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Whether you are lost in your own identity puzzle or simply watching a heartbreaking newscast about the most recent planetary disaster, Dante has a way of bringing home other people's suffering.

"Inside the building that tranquillity gives way to a comic-book version of Dante's Divine Comedy, with strict divisions between various worlds. Visitors enter via an internal bridge that crosses over an underground atrium. From here, a vast hall conceived on the scale of a piazza leads to a cafeteria overlooking the calm surface of a reflecting pool. On one side of the hall looms the ziggurat form of the museum; on the other, a wall of glass-enclosed offices. Here the spectral glow of the interior of the cast-glass skin evokes the stained-glass windows of a medieval cathedral."

This experimental website, inspired by students of Arielle Saiber’s “Dante’s Divine Comedy” course, has been built to archive occurrences of Dante and his works in popular and contemporary culture of the twentieth century and beyond.

The absence of any other accounts adds greatly to the difficulty of its description. To explain that infernal theater, it was necessary to have a geographer and architect of the most sublime judgment, as, in the end, our Dante has proved.

Religion has always been a kind of spatial practice. That's why it built most of the history of architecture.

City of Dis, Nether Hell-After nearly four years of consstruction at an estimated cost of 750 million souls, Corpadverticus, the new 10th circle of Hell, finally opened its doors Monday.