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Dante receives his COVID-19 vaccine

June 2, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

Posted to Instagram by La Repubblica and L’Espresso Settimanale illustrator Mauro Biani (@maurobia) on Dantedì (March 25) 2021. The image was also shared on La Repubblica.

Contributed by Carmelo Galati (Temple University)

Categories: Digital Media, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Beatrice, Cartoons, Comics, Covid-19, Dantedì, Humor, Illustrations, Instagram, Italy, Medicine, Social Media, Vaccines, Web Comics

Dinty W. Moore, To Hell With It: Of Sin and Sex, Chicken Wings, and Dante’s Entirely Ridiculous, Needlessly Guilt-Inducing Inferno (2021)

May 10, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“Dante published his ambitious and unusual poem, Divine Comedy, more than seven hundred years ago. In the ensuing centuries countless retellings, innumerable adaptations, tens of thousands of fiery sermons from Catholic bishops and Baptist preachers, all those New Yorker cartoons, and masterpieces of European art have afforded Dante’s fictional apparition of hell unending attention and credibility. Dinty W. Moore did not buy in.

“Moore started questioning religion at a young age, quizzing the nuns in his Catholic school, and has been questioning it ever since. Yet after years of Catholic school, religious guilt, and persistent cultural conditioning, Moore still can’t shake the feelings of inadequacy, and asks: What would the world be like if eternal damnation was not hanging constantly over our sheepish heads? Why do we persist in believing a myth that merely makes us miserable? In To Hell with It, Moore reflects on and pokes fun at the over-seriousness of religion in various texts, combining narratives of his everyday life, reflections on his childhood, and religion’s influence on contemporary culture and society.”   —University of Nebraska Press

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2021, American Religion, Catholicism, Christianity, Damnation, Guilt, Hell, Humor, Non-Fiction, Nonfiction, Popular Culture, Punishment, Religion, Sin, United States

“Baby Owl Stole That From Dante” Meme

April 11, 2021 By Laura Chatellier, FSU '23

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“Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people.”    —QuickMeme.

Categories: Digital Media, Written Word
Tagged with: 2021, Humor, Inferno, Internet, Meme

“Newly Uncovered DNA Evidence Frees Thousands Of Damned Souls From Hell”

February 8, 2021 By Jasmine George, FSU '24

“Hear how justice was finally served for those wrongfully accused of greed, gluttony, and premarital sex.”   —The Onion, 2020

Listen to the full podcast here.

Categories: Digital Media, Image Mosaic, Written Word
Tagged with: 2020, Gates of Hell, Hell, Humor, Journalism, Justice, Punishment, Satire, Soul

Dante’s Tenth Circle of Hell T-Shirt

January 31, 2021 By Laura Chatellier, FSU '23

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“Laundry Shirt – Laundry Dante’s Known Tenth Circle Of Hell Cursive Laundry – Funny Tee – Funny Gift – Funny T-shirt – Funny Shirt”

See more from the GreyisthenewblackCo store on Etsy.

Categories: Consumer Goods
Tagged with: 2020, Circles of Hell, Clothing, Etsy, Humor

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