While Dante’s “ Divina Commedia” had already been around for hundreds of years, its popularity quite obviously went through periods of interest and dismissal. Many of his illustrations can be seen in the works of Byron, Homer, and Goethe, and Shakespeare. He was renowned for his work, becoming very successful in his craft and working until his death in Paris in 1883. By 15, he was working for the satirical paper “Le Journal pour rire” as a caricaturist, a job that got him exposure and led to commissions for various books. One of his main mediums was wood-carved prints, a talent that would lock his work in the annals of history, forever appreciated.īorn in 1832, Doré was a prodigy in the world of art. Traveling forward a few hundred years to the mid-19th century, we meet Gustave Doré, a French artist, illustrator, and sculptor. His visions have sparked imaginations for centuries and I doubt that awe and fascination will cease any time soon. The descriptions Dante wove with his words inspired and shaped artists, sculptors, writers, directors, video game developers, and more. There is Limbo, where the souls of pagans and the unbaptized must remain for eternity Lust, where offenders are trapped in a violent storm, ever spiraling and chaotic the icy rainstorm of Gluttony the ironically twisted fate of those guilty of Greed as they are cast into a pot of molten gold a vicious war in a dark swamp in Anger Heresy, where heretics burn endlessly the horror of Violence, where those who lived a life of rage drown in a lake of boiling blood Fraud, where souls are tortured at the hands of demons, who cast them into a dark pit and last is Treachery, where those guilt are frozen from the waist down to be displayed as a monument of their offense. The Nine Circles of Hell are where the damned must suffer for their crimes, each layer hosting a different type of sinner. After all, the first portion of this story is entirely devoted to Dante’s journey’s through the Nine Circles of Hell, which ends in the 10th layer, where he sees the Lord of Darkness himself, Satan. Hailed as one of the greatest works of literature throughout history, The Divine Comedy is known not only for its structure, its themes and motifs, and its characters but also for Alighieri’s wild and, at times, terrifying imagination.
The story follows Dante as he is walks through the afterlife with the Roman poet Virgil as his guide, starting on the night before Good Friday and culminating on the Wednesday after Easter, a trip that lasts approximately a week.
In the early 14th century, Italian poet Dante Alighieri began work on his “ Divina Commedia“, the Divine Comedy, which was comprised of three separate but interwoven tales: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
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