http://www.laboratorioterzogirone.com/_contenuti/index.php?viewPage=7&lingua=ITA (retrieved on March 25, 2011)
De Vulgari Eloquentia, the Board Game
“Italy, late Middle Ages. The fabric merchants need to write down their contracts in a language that everyone can understand and the literates are looking for an alternative to the elite of the traditional Latin language. So, the Volgare, the language spoken by the common people, taken from the dialects spoken in the various Italian regions, starts to gain relevance. During this period, Francesco D’Assisi writes his famous Canticle of the Sun and Dante writes the Divine Comedy – both written in Volgare. The players will have to do their part in the creation of this new language!
But who will provide them the proper knowledge to understand the manuscripts in the different dialects? Who will succeed to uncover the secrets of the books inside the Papal Library? Who will embrace the religious life and who will remain a merchant? Some of the players can become a famous banker, someone else can climb the church’s hierarchy to be the next Pope! But in the end, who will be the most appreciated and respected for his status and his culture?” —Z-Man Games
See also: interview with the designer, Mario Papini.
Mary Shelley’s Schoolbus
TV Tropes: “Word of Dante”
“Word Of Dante is stuff the creators haven’t said is true about their universe — but everyone assumes it is true because an independent authority, scholar of the work, or Big Name Fan has said it — often with supporting arguments. It’s a kind of ascended Fanon. A more literary criticism friendly technical term for it would be deuterocanon.” [. . .] —TV Tropes
TV Tropes: “Literature: The Divine Comedy”
“What is this about? This wiki is a catalog of the tricks of the trade for writing fiction.” —TV Tropes
Some examples:
-“Alien Geometries – While Hell and Purgatory have clearly defined geography, that of Paradise is more complicated. The spheres of Heaven correspond to the celestial spheres of a geocentric universe, but can equally well be seen as orbiting around God in the Empyrean, or as all existing in the same space. To enter Paradise or cross between the spheres, one must Ascend To A Higher Plane Of Existence, rather than doing any physical climbing. The structure of Heaven has been interpreted as an early description of the fourth-dimensional hypersphere.”
-“And I Must Scream – The Inferno is made of these. In particular, suicides are turned into trees. They can scream, when someone breaks off a branch. And traitors are just frozen. Their eyes are actually frozen shut with their tears. The worst off are probably the ones at the very bottom, completely frozen in ice in grotesque positions. There’s also the penance for the sin of Pride in the Purgatorio: the sinners are made to carry boulders, the weight of which is proportional to the sin’s weight. Dante even remarks that the punishment is the simplest, and yet quite terrible.”
-“And That’s Terrible – Dante really hated corrupt priests.”
-“Author Avatar – Purgatory has seven levels corresponding to the Seven Deadly Sins. Dante experiences the penances for only three: Pride, Anger, and Lust. Translator Dorothy L. Sayers commented that these were precisely the three faults people tend to accuse Dante of, so sharing these penances was probably a deliberate confession on the poet’s part.”
See more Dante TV Tropes.
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