A silent Inferno from 1911 – “arguably the first ever blockbuster
Via the the twitter account of Ewan Morrison, I came across this gem. The oldest existing feature length film is none other than a 1911 silent version of Dante’s Inferno…
Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
Via the the twitter account of Ewan Morrison, I came across this gem. The oldest existing feature length film is none other than a 1911 silent version of Dante’s Inferno…
From Introductory Dante Papers, Dorothy L Sayers: That the Inferno is a picture of human society in a state of sin and corruption, everybody will readily agree. And since we…
More info here: NonBinary Review is a quarterly digital literary journal that joins poetry, fiction, essays, and art around each issue’s theme. We invite authors to explore each theme in…
Recently I acquired a copy of Padráig de Brún’s translation into Irish of “Inferno”. de Brún translated the whole Divine Comedy. The fly jacket of my copy states that “it…
In Inferno, Dante is accompanied by the soul of the poet Virgil. Virgil, amongst other things, has to warn off the various guardians of the underworld to leave the still-living…
Originally posted on The Broken Tower:
Today is Ash Wednesday and although I did not want to provide a reading of a long poem for some time, I thought not…
From this review There is still a tendency among not very attentive readers – not to mention people who have read almost nothing of the work but have picked up…