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“San Francisco: The 9th Circle of Hell”

November 21, 2021 By Sephora Affa, FSU '24

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“Dante learns a great many things about the metaphysical world, but this blog post is mostly concerned with the temperature of the 9th circle of hell. For those who haven’t read it, this circle is not a fire pit with little devils poking bare-bummed sinners with pitch forks. It’s frozen solid, and at the very epicenter, Satan is frozen mid-waist, eternally munching on Brutus, Cassius, and Judas in his three mouths. It’s pretty gruesome but not unlike what’s going on in San Francisco this winter.” [. . .]    —Snotting Black, January 15, 2013

Categories: Odds & Ends, Places
Tagged with: 2013, Blogposts, Blogs, Brutus, California, Frozen, Hell, Judas, Ninth Circle, San Francisco, Satan, Travel Writing, Weather

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Season 13, Skin in the Game (2013)

August 19, 2021 By Ezra Berman '23

“In the last episode of the thirteenth season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (‘Skin in the Game’) and the story continuing in the first episode of the next season (‘The Devil and D.B. Russell’) the bad guy imitates the depiction of the nine circles of hell as found in a 16th-century version of Dante’s Inferno.”    —Wikipedia

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2013, Circles of Hell, Hell, Inferno, Television

“Through Me To Everlasting Pain You Go”

April 11, 2021 By Laura Chatellier, FSU '23

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“A monumental mix of dark and epic classical music based on Dante’s Inferno from The Divine Comedy to accompany you in your journey through the circles of hell, including Ludwig Van Beethoven, Stravinsky and Penderecki.”    — Moontopmountain, 8tracks, 2013.

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2013, Classical Music, Divine Comedy, Music, Remix

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Inferno Translation

April 2, 2021 By Jasmine George, FSU '24

Nineteenth century poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translates Inferno, featured in this 2013 book. More information about this translation can be found here.

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2013, Inferno, Literature, Longfellow, Poets, Translation, Translations

Robert Schwentke, dir. R.I.P.D. (2013)

February 2, 2021 By Professor Arielle Saiber


“There are many descriptions of the afterlife in fiction that can be traced back to Dante’s imaginative journeys. The wacky afterlife universe depicted in the 2013 movie R.I.P.D (Rest in Peace Department) can’t shake off the legacy.

“When a Boston police officer is killed by his renegade partner, he is immediately whizzed up to a questionable Heaven where he discovers that everyone has to answer for past crimes in the thereafter – or join R.I.P.D, Inferno’s police force. The task of the R.I.P.D is to catch ‘Deadoes’, the souls of the deceased who refuse to accept their fate and instead return to the world of the living in order to spoil it.

“The ascent to where R.I.P.D resides is a helical ride for the recently departed, a cocktail of two shots of Inferno, half a Purgatorio and one of Paradiso.  Sitting under the department of ‘Eternal Affairs’, R.I.P.D is run by a chief, half Virgil, half Minos, whose role is to give the new recruit a tour of the establishment. The movie seems to suggest that if you’re not simply visiting Hell (like Dante the pilgrim), then you’re either a convict or an (infernal) law-enforcement officer, whose job is to keep the damned away from the living.

“Dante’s circles of Hell are alluded to in the prison cells of the R.I.P.D precincts and in its staff’s crammed offices. Hell is other people working in the next R.I.P.D cubicle.”    –Cristian Ispir

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2013, Divine Comedy, Films, Hell, Inferno, Police

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