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Cesare

October 15, 2020 By lsanchez

From Volume 2, Chapter 10, in Fuyumi Soryo’s 2005 manga series Cesare, which makes extensive reference to the Divine Comedy.

Learn more about Cesare here.

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2005, Artists, Comics, Divine Comedy, Manga

Draghignazzo – Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (2005)

October 11, 2020 By lsanchez

“Draghignazzo is an enemy in Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow. He is one of the guardians of the dungeons of Hell. He is quite the pessimist.”    —Wikivania: Encyclopedia of Darkness, August 20, 2019

Learn more about Konami’s 2005 video game Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow here.

Categories: Consumer Goods, Digital Media
Tagged with: 2005, Demons, Hell, Inferno, Malebranche, Video Games

Joseph Pearce, Catholic Literary Giants (2005)

March 2, 2019 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

Pearce-Catholic-Literary-Giants-Dante“Taken as a whole, one can see Eliot’s major work as paralleling that of his master, Dante. The Waste Land and ‘The Hollow Man,” were his Inferno, ‘Ash Wednesday’ and The Rock were his Purgatorio, and Four Quartets were his vision of Paradise. What a legacy he has bequeathed to posterity!” (176) — Joseph Pearce, Catholic Literary Giants: A Field Guide to the Catholic Literary Landscape

Contributed by Ellie Augustine (University of Kansas, 2020)

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2005, Intertextuality, Literary Criticism, Literature, Religion

Australian Metal Band, Abandon All Hope

October 4, 2018 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

abandon-all-hope-band-2005Abandon All Hope is a metal band out of Adelaide, Australia that was formed in 2005. The band had 5 members – Micah Leinonen as vocals, Jarrod Kennett on bass guitar, Chris Whitbread on drums, and Jake Battista and Shaan Kelly on guitars. The Metal Archives list the band’s lyrical themes as “Hate, Anger, Life, [and] Relationships.” The band split up in 2013.

Their discography consisted of 3 albums – Where Life and Death Meet (2007), A Havoc Command (2010), and Prowler (2011).

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2005, 2013, Abandon All Hope, Adelaide, Australia, Bands, Metal, Music

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005, dir. by Cristi Puiu)

September 16, 2018 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

Death-of-Mr-Lazarescu-Cristi-Puiu-Dante“Set in Bucharest, Romania, an ailing old man is carried by an ambulance from hospital to hospital during one night, while doctors refuse to treat
him. The ever-worsening journey of Mr Lazarescu, whose first name is Dante becomes a descent into the Underworld of Romania’s medical
services. Echoes to Dante abound.” — Contributor Cristian Ispir

“The Death of Mr. Lazarescu is the first instalment in a projected series of ‘Six Stories from the Bucharest Suburbs’. Puiu cites Eric Rohmer’s Moral Tales as his chief inspiration, but on this evidence an equally telling parallel would be Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Dekalog, though Puiu is more inclined towards self-conscious symbolism than the Pole. There are characters called Dante and Virgil and an unseen Dr Anghel, and the various hospital trips and their cyclical routines would match anyone’s idea of hell. And although the film’s title and mounting medical evidence suggests the opposite, Lazarescu’s own name hints that some kind of miraculous resurrection might be in prospect. It’s not just the film’s ambiguous ending that supports this, but also Fiscuteanu’s uncannily convincing portrayal of a man increasingly aware that he’s crossing the bridge between life and death but fiercely determined not to go without a fight, even as his faculties betray him. If Puiu’s main theme is the absence of love, his film is ultimately about the love of life.” — Review by Michael Brooke for the British Film Institute’s Sight & Sound magazine

Contributed by Cristian Ispir (University College London/Université de Lorraine)

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2005, Bucharest, Films, Hospitals, Inferno, Romania, Virgil

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