Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture
“His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later christened Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.
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“Writer’s Blocks are handmade odes to history’s greatest writers. Each 2″ x 2″ x 2″ solid wood block features the portrait, signature, and famous works of a particular author…” –Literature Lodge, Etsy
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“Abandon hope all ye who enter here.”
Theme Park World, Bullfrog Productions’ 1999 construction and management simulation game. Upon selecting Halloween World, the Adviser references the inscription upon the gates of hell.
Learn more from Theme Park World’s Wikipedia page here.
“Dante Alighieri, in Italy known as “the Supreme Poet”, was born in 1265 in Florence. He was a major Italian poet, writer and politician of the Middle Ages.
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“The pen is offered as a Lacquer piston fountain pen with rose gold trims in only 1.265 pieces all over the world (Dante’s date of birth).” —Chatterley Luxuries
“The story of Paolo and Francesca, two lovers entwined in an eternal whirlwind, was first told in Dante’s Divine Comedy, and has been the inspiration for countless classical artworks ever since.” —NET-A-PORTER
“I stumbled upon this image, titled ‘Hypnosis’, while looking through a fashion editorial earlier this week. The shot features model Jourdan Dunn dressed in Iris Van Herpen. It was lensed by Nick Knight and styled by Edward Enninful. The image will be included in British Vogue’s current November issue.
“The shot immediately reminds me of Dante’s entrance into earthly Paradise (in particular, it reminds me of Amos Nattini’s rendition of the scene). The similarity between the colors used, compositions of the frames, and the depictions of Beatrice is, to me, undeniable.” –Wade Pryor
(Contributed by Wade Pryor, Harvard ’20)
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“Did you know that you can still find a famous rock, called Dante’s Stone, where nineteenth-century travelers, including Mark Twain and Wordsworth, once paid homage to the great poet? Have you seen the oldest fresco of Dante? It’s in a restaurant, but they’ll let you in to see it even if you don’t eat there.
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“The user interface has been streamlined to be intuitive and responsive. You can select any of its approximately one hundred points of interest either from the menus or the two interactive maps. Each document was written by professional medievalists who put what you’re seeing into historical context. The fruit of our archival research and years of study is presented in a witty and fun style that teaches while it entertains.” –Quod Manet, LLC, Apple App Store, 2018
“With only one life, this is quite an unforgiving game. Nevertheless, it’s overall pretty nice to play, albeit short. The best feature is the creepy atmosphere, which captures fairly well the one of the book, of a place actually more desolate and sorrowful than plain scary.” — User Demon, Lemon64, June 1, 2015
Denton Designs’ 1986 video game, Dante’s Inferno, for the Commodore 64.
Watch Retro Arcade Classics complete the game here.
