Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy in popular culture. The works of Dante Alighieri – particularly the Divine Comedy, widely considered his masterpiece – have been a source of inspiration for various artists since their publications in the late 1. Some notable examples are listed below. Sculpture[edit]Auguste Rodin's sculptural group, The Gates of Hell, draws heavily on the Inferno. The component sculpture, Paolo and Francesca, represents Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta, whom Dante meets in Canto 5.[1] The version of this sculpture known as The Kiss shows the book that Paolo and Francesca were reading. Other component sculptures include Ugolino and his children (Canto 3. The Shades, who originally pointed to the phrase "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'entrate" ("Abandon all hope, ye who enter here") from Canto 3.[1] Sculptures of Grief and Despair cannot be assigned to particular sections of the Inferno, but are in keeping with the overall theme. The famous component sculpture The Thinker, near the top of the gate, represents Dante himself.[1] Like The Kiss, it was also produced as an independent work. Visual arts[edit]. Elisabeth Sonrel, scenes from Dante Alighieris and his Divine Comedy, "la vita"Giovanni di Paolo illuminated 1. Dante's Paradiso. Sandro Botticelli made the most famous set of illustrations during the Renaissance for a manuscript of the Divine Comedy commissioned by Lorenzo Pierfrancesco de' Medici; Botticelli also designed a series of illustrations for the 1. Another interesting series was done by Stradanus. Giovanni Britto illuminated a commentary La Comedia di Dante Alighieri con la nova esposizione written by Alessandro Vellutello and printed in 1. Francesco Marcolini. John Flaxman's illustrations were influential across Europe in the eighteenth century because of their radically minimalist style. Eugène Delacroix made his name with The Barque of Dante (1. Dante and Virgil crossing the river Styx. Before his death in 1. William Blake, the English poet and painter, planned and executed several watercolour illustrations to the Divine Comedy, including The Wood of the Self- Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides. Though he did not finish the series before his death, they remain a highly powerful visual interpretation of the poem. Project X Zone is a crossover tactical role-playing game for the Nintendo 3DS developed by Banpresto and Monolith Soft with assistance from Capcom and Red. Joseph Anton Koch illustrated Dante's Divine Comedy and painted in the period 1. Dante Room of the Villa Massimi. William- Adolphe Bouguereau, the prolific 1. Dante And Virgil In Hell in 1. Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Dante's Vision of Rachel and Leah (1. Dante's dream in Purgatorio XXVII. Pre- Raphaelite and Victorian British paintings relating to Dante include: Dante and Beatrice (1. Henry Holiday; and Dante's Dream (1. Beata Beatrix (1. Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy in popular culture.![]()
Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Gustave Doré made the most famous illustrations in the 1. Franz von Bayros, mainly known for his erotic drawings, illustrated a 1. Salvador Dalí made a series of prints for the Comedy in 1. Jennifer Strange's collection of drawings and sculpture is titled "Inspired by Dante".[5] This artist's journey through the Divine Comedy is a contemporary collection of works that have been exhibited in the United States and Italy. It features an online image gallery with text, translation and commentary. British artist Tom Phillips illustrated his own translation of the Inferno, published in 1. Graba' made a cycle La Divina Commedia consisting of 1. Art Hall Sint- Pietersabdij in Ghent. British artist Guy Denning's online "Dante" project follows on from his exhibition of his Inferno paintings in Bologna in 2. Dante's Inferno"[7] is a 6. Dino di Durante. Architecture[edit]Literature[edit]Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. Dante's work.[9]"A Complaynt to His Lady," an early short poem, is written in terza rima, the rhyme scheme Dante invented for the Comedy. Anelida and Arcite ends with a "compleynt" by Anelida, the lover jilted by Arcite; the compleynt begins with the phrase "So thirleth with the poynt of remembraunce" and ends with "Hath thirled with the poynt of remembraunce," copied from Purgatory 1. The House of Fame, a dream vision in three books in which the narrator is guided through the heavens by an otherworldly guide, has been described as a parody of the Comedy. The narrator echoes Inferno 2. The Monk's Tale from The Canterbury Tales describes (in greater and more emphatic detail) the plight of Count Ugolino (Inferno, cantos 3. Dante's original text in 7. The beginning of the last stanza of Troilus and Criseyde (5. Paradiso 1. 2. 2. John Milton finds various uses for Dante, whose work he knew well: [1. Milton refers to Dante's insistence on the separation of worldly and religious power in Of Reformation, where he cites Inferno 1. Beatrice's condemnation of corrupt and neglectful preachers, Paradiso 2. Lycidas 1. 25- 2. The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed, / But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw," when Milton condemns corrupt clergy. The title of Honoré de Balzac's work La Comédie humaine (the "Human Comedy," 1. Dante's.,[1. 2] whilst Dante himself features as a character in the 1. Les Proscrits from that work. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who translated the Divine Comedy into English, also wrote a poem titled "Mezzo Cammin" ("Halfway," 1. Comedy,[1. 3] and a sonnet sequence (of six sonnets) under the title "Divina Commedia" (1. Karl Marx uses a paraphrase of Purgatory (V, 1. Das Kapital (1. 86. Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti" ("follow your own road, and let the people talk").[1. Lesya Ukrainka's poem "The Forgotten Shadow" (1. Dante and Beatrice. The forgotten shadow in the poem is Gemma Donati, Aligheri's wife. In E. M. Forster's novel Where Angels Fear to Tread (1. Gino Carella, upon first introducing himself, quotes the first lines of Inferno[1. Dante's La Vita Nuova as well).[1. T. S. Eliot cites Inferno, XXVII, 6. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1. Eliot cites heavily from and alludes to Dante in Prufrock and Other Observations (1. Ara vus prec (1. 92. The Waste Land (1. First begun in 1. Ezra Pound's Cantos take the Comedy as a model.[4]Samuel Beckett in his non- fiction essay "Dante.. Bruno. Vico. Joyce", published in Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress (1. Joyce's reassessments of the conventions of the English language to Dante's departure from Latin and synthesis of Italian dialects in the Divine Comedy.[1. Turkish poet. Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı's famous poem "Otuz Beş Yaş" (lit. Thirty Five Years") is beginning with the verses which contains a citation of Inferno: "Yaş otuz beş! Yolun yarısı eder / Dante gibi ortasındayız ömrün" ("Age thirty five! It is half of way / We are in the middle of life like Dante") won the Best Turkish Poem Prize in 1. Primo Levi cites Dante's Divine Comedy in the chapter called "Canto of Ulysses" in his novel Se questo è un uomo (If This Is a Man) (1. United States as Survival in Auschwitz, and in other parts of this book; the fires of Hell are compared to the "real threat of the fires of the crematorium."[2. Malcolm Lowry paralleled Dante's descent into hell with Geoffrey Firmin's descent into alcoholism in his epic novel Under the Volcano (1. In contrast to the original, Lowry's character explicitly refuses grace and "chooses hell," though Firmin does have a Dr. Virgil as a guide (and his brother, Hugh Firmin, quotes the Comedy from memory in ch. Jorge Luis Borges, who wrote extensively about Dante,[4][2. Dreamtigers (El Hacedor, 1. Paradiso, XXXI, 1. Inferno, I, 3. 2," which paraphrase and comment on Dante's lines.[2. Poet Derek Walcott, in 1. Epitaph for the Young: XII Cantos, which he later acknowledged as deliberately influenced by Dante.[4]James Merrill published his Divine Comedies, a collection of poetry, in 1. The Book of Ephraim," consists "of conversations held, via the Ouija board, with dead friends and spirits in 'another world.'"[2. Authors Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle wrote a modern sequel, Inferno (1. Hell, where Benito Mussolini functions as his guide. They wrote a subsequent sequel to their own work, Escape from Hell (2. Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills (1. Dante's Inferno as a model for the trek made by two young black poets who spend the days before Christmas doing odd jobs in an affluent African American community. The young men soon discover the price paid by the inhabitants of Linden Hills for pursuing the American dream.[2. Author Monique Wittig's Virgile, Non (published in English as Across the Acheron, 1. Divine Comedy set in the utopia/dystopia of second- wave feminism. Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho (1.
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