#dante’s divine comedy

[birdhaslostit]

I had a revelation. Look at this.

Dante Alighieri versus Secondo.

SOMETHING IS THERE. This might have been intentional. Look at their noses and profile. They are strikingly similar.

I always thought Secondo looked familiar, but I never could figure out who it was (not just Pitbull) until just now. It hit me like a ton of bricks when I realized. I’ve seen Dante’s death mask in person, as well as several other works depicting Dante. Their faces are definitely similar, especially the nose. I can’t be the only one who sees this.

Tobias may have done this intentionally, but I don’t know for sure. Am I the only person who’s noticed this?

And to further expand on this theory, wouldn’t it be cool if Dante Alighieri was the founder of the Emeritus line? There’s no precedent or evidence for it, but it’s an interesting concept.

MORE ANALYSIS HERE

[ardenti-corde]

🪽Dante meets biblically accurate angel🪽

Painted by: @ardenti-corde (me)

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[asteria-of-the-stars]

Some of my favourite of Gustave Doré’s illustrations for Dante Alighieri’s Inferno.

[jedi-valjean]

Homer: This is my OC Odysseus he’s a trickster

Sophocles: What a compelling villain

Homer: No!! He’s a hero!!!!

Romans: Um, no, he’s totally problematic, he’s definitely evil

Homer: No!!!!!! He’s a good guy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Modern readers: Oh so he’s like, an antihero, cool

Homer: Absolutely not. Now you’re just making up words

[towns-end-bindery]

Divine Comedy - Inferno

By Dante Alighieri

I debated with myself on whether or not I would post this now or later. But ultimately I decided I was too excited about having finished the casing to hold back, even though I still haven’t foiled the title on the spine yet, or decorated the back. It always takes a bit of time for me to muster up the courage for that.

The text block for this book had been sitting around next to my printer for probably 2 months, just waiting to be cased. I find casing so tedious and also nerve wracking. It’s so easy for things to turn out all wrong, especially with the alignment of the end papers. I can’t help still noticing the little flaws even on this lovely book. But chances are no one else is going to notice, so why am I stressing? Haha.

Anyway, I hope you all enjoy this beautifully illustrated book.

11/04/2023

[sid-posts]

consider an rb for sample size?

[divine-evil]

Dante and Virgil

-William-Adolphe Bouguereau. c.1850

[drsunshines]

New Dante design drop ‼️🫶

[m1ssnovember]

Pomegranate academia

• reciting Romeo & Juliet

• Dionysus devotee

• the red penguin hardcovers

• obsession with Self cannibalism

• 1 liter of pomegranate juice a day

• either working in an underground bookstore or a gothic theater

• Interview with the vampire 🧛

• leather gloves (preferably red)

• is recognized by their professors by the Fountain pen writing and its red ink

• lust & envy

• Dante’s divine comedy

• biology but only for the dissecting part

[riddlemefuckingthis]

Listening to Hozier feels like you have to have required reading and each time I see some random person talking about Unreal Unearth I’m always like “did you read the material?” It’s a very rude thing to ask, but like, do you know what he’s talking about?!? Have you read Dante’s Inferno?

[lmaowhosemaddie]

Hozier really made the song of lust about a love that the narrator would happily burn in hell for. He took a story of lust and adultery and conveyed the love beneath the sin— a love so strong, it was worth eternal damnation. Even if the narrator were given the chance to do life over and possibly get into heaven, they wouldn’t change a thing because they would always choose their lover.

[aaamike]

Hahaha I’m sure that’s not symbolic or anything hahaha...

[homosherb]

my contribution to today

[eldritcheyecryptid]

Y’all. I was thinking about how Good Omens is being marketed as a ‘divine comedy’.

The Divine Comedy is a trilogy written by Dante, which is basically a self insert Bible fanfic where he travels through Hell in the first book, Purgatory in the second, and Heaven in the third.

With this in mind, I think this may be how the structure of the seasons will go. In the first season, they experience the Hell that is losing each other, pushing each other away, and almost being executed. In the second season, we get some fluff and angst—not specifying for those who haven’t finished—and the possible third season may have more fluff and good vibes than the others?

[artificialcaretaker]

DAY SIX: HELL

[World’s first self insert fanfiction who cheered!!

Anyways Lalo isn’t even irked by the violence of hell or the fact that they both know the guy who’s currently in an eternal battle (Cuz I think Domingo would work as Capocchio), he just doesn’t like that his handsome lil admirer is witnessing this.

Nacho, though, averts his eyes to the demon watching. How could he possibly witness the very violence he made him fall into??

[vulgar-mary-p-ppins]

Replying to @missgoldieisbeautiful

I think this is an intriguing question, and one that many people may have, so I felt I should answer it more publicly than a PM.

I think, at least in American schools, if you were made to read Dante’s Inferno, you are told by a teacher that it’s about romance and the idolization of a woman. I think, in the grand scheme of the Divine Comedy, this is a very limited and surface level reading. I also think it’s colored by DECADES of men sitting around telling other men what books are about.

To me, Dante’s Divine Comedy, as a whole, is about grief. It’s about the shock of death (Inferno—here, the “negative” emotions; denial and anger) the numbness (Purgatorio—the “neutral” emotions, bargaining and depression) and growing past the pain (Paradiso— the “positive” emotion; acceptance). It is about Dante seeking the assurance that Virgil and Beatrice are in a better place. One could also argue that neither Virgil or Beatrice are people but rather symbols of his lost identity as a Florentine in a time when your city-state was your identity. Dante wrote the Divine Comedy after being exiled, after all, and so you could see his journey as his grief over his lost identity, coming to terms with the fact that he will be okay away from Florence and that Florence will be okay without him. Why else would he begin at Inferno instead or working backwards from Paradise if not because of the nature of grief?

I don’t think I am the only person who sees Dante’s Inferno this way. I would point to the film What Dreams May Come as an example of other people seeing that the Divine Comedy is about grief. However, every book, movie, video game, anything is up to the viewer to derive their own understanding. Our impressions of things are constantly colored by our cultures and experiences, which makes critical analysis of much of anything both a worthy endeavor and in the end, fruitless. There is no right answer. I’m surely not an authority, but, neither was your teacher.

Thank you for the chance to elaborate @missgoldieisbeautiful . I love to talk about things I see and read and I very rarely get the chance any longer.