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TWO OBSESSIONS MERGED!!! I’m so running this campaign when I finish the one I’m currently running.

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Dante's Inferno (1924)

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Adding this to my bucket list~

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I don’t know what in the 9 circles of inferno is going on, but for some reason people are liking my posts and following my page!

It boggles my mind that a blog that I haven’t made a new post for in a full year is suddenly being pushed to other Dante fans!

I am grateful, truly. When I made this page, it was to share my love for this classic with others and I am overjoyed that it’s finally happening.

Thank you so much for following. I will definitely be making more updates in the future.

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“ambo le mani in su l’erbetta sparte soavemente ‘l mio maestro pose: ond’io, che fui accorto di sua arte,

porsi ver’ lui le guance lagrimose: ivi mi fece tutto discoverto quel color che l’inferno mi nascose”

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Dante Alighieri. The divine comedy. Illustration by Franz von Bayros (1921).

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For the group show Sa Pangatlong Kanto

An exhibit in celebration of Dante Alighieri’s 750th Birth Anniversary.

The show runs from November 24 to 27, 2015 at the Museum of A History of Ideas, University of the Philippines Manila.

Similar to Alighieri’s Divine Comedy and its three different realms of the dead, people on earth live bit by bit in their own kind of division too. Most stay in domains where they think they fairly belong, while some move from under to somewhere over and beyond in attempt to achieve a change of mind and of heart―a journey to metanoia. 

This, in relation to Dante’s sailing across the river of sorrow, also known as the Acheron, with Virgil and Charon the ferryman marks the beginning of his pilgrimage.

See Inferno, Canto III.

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Visual artist Mihai Marius Mihu depicted Dante’s Nine Circles of Hell using an unusual, and frankly chilling, medium: Legos. 

Mihu explains that he hasn’t read Dante’s Inferno (or any of The Divine Comedy), and that that was part of the draw; by bringing a fresh, objective eye, he hoped to bring a totally new and chilling angle to the ubiquitous story.

(via Mihai Marius Mihu’s Facebook page)

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Franz von Bayros (Austrian, 1866 – 1924)

Illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy, Vienna, 1921

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Eugène Auguste François Deully (French, 1860-1933)

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‘Francesca da Rimini’ from The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, @ Wallace Collection, London

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Salvatore Postiglione - Dante e Beatrice

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The first time I saw this, I sat under it and got teary eyed because it’s beautiful and I’m ridiculously emotional and Dante wakes all sorts of feelings in me.

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Donn P. Crane (1878 - 1944) - Illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy