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La Divina Avventura

October 26, 2019 By Alexa Kellenberger FSU '22

“La Divina Avventura è un libro illustrato, in versi, che potete trovare nella vostra libreria di fiducia in tutta Italia.

“La Divina Avventura è la Divina Commedia vista con gli occhi dei bambini e delle bambine, con gli occhi dei ragazzi e delle ragazze.

“Anzi, meglio ancora, ascoltata con le orecchie dei più piccoli perché il testo in versi è scritto per essere letto ad alta voce da mamme, papà, nonne, nonni, zii e da chiunque altro voglia tuffarsi nelle incredibili avventure vissute da Dante Alighieri attraverso i tre regni magici.” [. . .]    —La Divina Avventura website, 2019.

You can purchase a copy of La Divina Avventura by Enrico Cerni, Francesca Gambino, and Maria Distefano here.

Contributed by Enrico Cerni.

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture, Written Word
Tagged with: 2019, Books, Children's books, Illustrated Books, Illustrations, Italian

Illustrations of the Comedy by Matteo Berton (2015)

June 30, 2018 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

Matteo-Berton-Giants-Inferno-Antaeus

“I had the great pleasure of working on the Divine Comedy for a children’s adaptation written by Paolo di Paolo and published by La Nuova Frontiera Junior in 2015.

“The project was selected by the Society of Illustrator of New York annual competition Illustrator 58 in 2016 and won a Silver Medal in the book and editorial category.” — Matteo Berton

Categories: Image Mosaic, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: Children's books, Illustrated Books, Illustrations, Italy

Dante’s Inferno as written by Dr. Seuss (Reddit Writing Prompt)

April 28, 2018 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

In March 2018 Reddit user The2500 posted the following Writing Prompt: “Dante’s Inferno as written by Dr. Seuss.” Here is a selection from the first entry:

And gave poor Dante a very big fright

And scared, Dante was, in the woods called sin

Dr-Seuss-Cat-in-the-hat-Dantes-Inferno-Reddit-Writing-PromptsFret not, Virgil said, and gave him his hand.

‘For together we must travel throughout the land!

Through Hell and Eden, Purgatory and all!’

Dante gasped, ‘But why upon me must this fate befall?

Oh me, oh my, I think I might cry!’

Virgil smiled and shook his head.

‘O ’tis Beatrice’s call,’ he plainly said.

‘Beatrice?’

‘Oh yes! She wishes your spirit to be put to the test.’

Dante jumped, he leaped, he punched the sky.

‘Joy upon joys! I’ve been graced. I’m so happy, I think I might die!’

Virgil grabbed him, ‘Then let us make haste, this duo of you and I.’

And so they walked, en route to limbo.

They braced and prepared to go low. Low upon lows, through Hell and their foes.”

— “Dante’s Inferno As Written By Dr. Seuss” on Reddit.com

Contributed by Jessica Beasley (Florida State University ’18)

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2018, Children's books, Humor, Inferno, Internet, Poetry, Writing

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