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Customizable Dante Apparel

November 16, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

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Customizable apparel companies like Redbubble, Zazzle, and teepublic feature countless Dante-related t-shirts and other items, like this “Dante’s Inferno Classic T-shirt“—featuring Botticelli’s portrait of the poet, along with the verse “Lasciate ogne speranza voi ch’intrate”—designed by user momulo-macheras on Redbubble.

Categories: Consumer Goods
Tagged with: Apparel, Clothing, Dante Portraits, Face of Dante, Fashion, Inferno, Lasciate ogne speranza

The Inferno Steak

January 28, 2021 By Laura Chatellier, FSU '23

chef-boldek-2013-the-inferno-steak“I decided to create my own hellish steak recipe.  I immediately drew inspiration from outside of the culinary world: the first part of the 14th century poem, Divine Comedy.  Also known as Inferno, this part was written by Dante Alighieri to document the descent into hell.  That descent began at the gates of hell, which bore an inscription that ended with the words: ‘Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate”, or ‘Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.’  That sounded like a fitting beginning for a hellish steak recipe.  After passing through the gates, Dante made his way through nine circles of suffering — Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud and Treachery — with each circle representing a gradual increase in wickedness.
“The nine circles got me to thinking.  Many people think of eating chiles as a kind of suffering … with the heat and piquancy causing sweating and discomfort.  I decided to use nine different chiles to represent the nine circles of suffering, with each subsequent chile being more ‘wicked’ (or spicier) than the last.” [. . .]    —Chef Bolek, January 2, 2013.

Categories: Dining & Leisure
Tagged with: 2013, Abandon All Hope, Circles of Hell, Food, Heat, Inferno, Lasciate ogne speranza, Recipes, Suffering

CIX, Hello Chapter 3: Hello, Strange Time (2020)

October 24, 2020 By Professor Arielle Saiber

See the video teaser trailer here 

Contributed by Justin Meckes

Categories: Music, Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2020, Abandon All Hope, Dark Wood, K-Pop, Lasciate ogne speranza, Nel Mezzo del Cammin, Selva oscura, South Korea

La Porta dell’Inferno – Beyond the Gate

October 6, 2020 By lsanchez

“After Beyond the Castle’s success, we embarked in a new project that celebrates Italian culture. Together with the most prestigious school of Milan, the Collegio San Carlo, we created a new virtual reality experience that focuses on Dante’s Divine Comedy. In The Hell’s Gate students can embody Dante and walk through the dark forest. This will allow them to approach this masterpiece in an innovative and engaging way.”    —Beyond the Gate, 2019

Categories: Digital Media
Tagged with: 2019, Abandon All Hope, Dark Wood, Gates of Hell, Inferno, Italian, Italy, Lasciate ogne speranza, Milan, Technology, Virgil, Virtual Reality

Wear a Mask

July 31, 2020 By Professor Arielle Saiber

 

” ‘Lasciate ogni Speranza, voi ch’entrate.’ Abandon all hope, ye who enter.  The words inscribed on the gates of hell, according to Dante Alighieri in the “Divina Commedia,” could be the best way to describe the tumultuous year we have experienced so far. No matter the age, generation or social status, every single human being on the planet has been affected.  The novel coronavirus, formally known as COVID-19, has upended human life as we knew it. Long are the days when we could go out to our favorite pub, restaurant or store and enjoy a genuinely good time. Nowadays, we leave our houses with a new fear. Will we get it on our trip to get groceries? Will we get it from that group of careless people that refuse to wear a mask or social distance? If I get it, will I die? Will I infect my loved ones? Will I see them die?” […]    –Jorge Luis Galvez Vallejo, Iowa State Daily, July 30, 2020

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2020, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Iowa, Lasciate ogne speranza

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