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Carlton Fletcher: “Finding the proper circle in Dante’s hell for the deserving”

January 8, 2021 By Jasmine George, FSU '24

fletcher sig.jpg“In the classic poem The Divine Comedy, finished in 1320 by Italian poet Dante Alighieri, Dante made note of the nine circles of hell that he visited during what had to have been a fever dream.

“In doing so, Dante left the perfect vehicle for we mere mortals centuries later to assign the likes of those with whom we’re at odds or others whose abhorrent behavior we find particularly egregious. So, as we close out this most contentious of years — a year we might dump as a whole into the first circle of Dante’s hell — here are a few nominees for various levels of the poet’s underworld.”   –Carlton Fletcher, “Finding the Proper Circle in Dante’s Hell for the Deserving,” Albany Herald, 2020
See the full article here.

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2020, Albany (GA), Circles of Hell, Covid-19, Georgia, Judgement, Politics

“Dante’s Inferno has always been so funny to me…”

September 4, 2020 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall


“Dante’s Inferno has always been so funny to me because its this really important classic that is constantly referenced, but at the same time it’s really just a burn book. Dante Alighieri is Regina George and he wrote an entire book about a bunch of people he hates and why he hates them. Dante took out his pink gel pen and wrote out in big cursive letters: Achilles is a slut.”   —aphrodarling on tumblr (April 24, 2019)

Regina George is the antagonist of the 2004 film Mean Girls.

Contributed by Kate McKee (Bowdoin College ’22)

Categories: Digital Media, Written Word
Tagged with: 2019, Achilles, America, Blogs, Films, Humor, Inferno, Judgement, Social Media, The Canon, Tumblr

‘Dante’s Inferno isn’t hot enough for you,’ says judge

July 17, 2019 By Gabriel Siwady '19

“STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Earlier this month, Anthony Morales admitted to slaying a neighbor and her son on a Mariners Harbor street two years ago.

“But the stocky 51-year-old defendant didn’t apologize for their deaths at his sentencing on Wednesday. Instead, Morales presented himself as the victim, claiming the decedents had harassed and tormented ceaselessly over the years, had followed him to a home he owned in Pennsylvania and had ‘come looking for’ him on the day they died.

“State Supreme Court Justice Mario F. Mattei listened patiently to Morales’ rambling seven-minute monologue in his St. George courtroom packed with the victims’ distraught relatives. And when Morales finally sat down, the judge didn’t mince words or hide his disdain.” […]    –Frank Donnelly, SiLive, May 30, 2018

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Tagged with: 2018, Crime, Death, Hell, Inferno, Judgement, Murder, New York, Punishment, Staten Island, United States

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