“You said yourself, ‘Abandon hope all ye who enter here.’ But I’m not Dante, and you’re not Vergilius.”
Learn more about Capcom’s 2012 video game Resident Evil: Revelations here.
Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture
By lsanchez
“You said yourself, ‘Abandon hope all ye who enter here.’ But I’m not Dante, and you’re not Vergilius.”
Learn more about Capcom’s 2012 video game Resident Evil: Revelations here.
By lsanchez
“This boss is quite famous in the community, and for understandable reasons! It has many deadly attacks at its disposal, Blue Blazes hits an entire union, Hellfire hits all characters in range, and it can use either of these at the beginning and end of any turn, which will annihilate your morale bar.” –Lemmy, YouTube, December 20, 2018
Learn more about Square Enix’s 2008 video game The Last Remnant here.
By lsanchez
In the video game Wild Arms 2, there is a gang of bandits called Cocytus, the members of which are named Caina, Antenora, Ptolomea, and Judecca.
Learn more about Media.Vision’s 1999 video game Wild Arms 2 here.
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From Volume 2, Chapter 10, in Fuyumi Soryo’s 2005 manga series Cesare, which makes extensive reference to the Divine Comedy.
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“Eagle-eyed viewers of Code Geass R2‘s first episode may have spotted that Lelouch is reading Dante’s Divina Commedia while Rollo gives him a lift. (As a child, I never loved anyone enough to give them my last Rolo.)
Slightly more obsessive viewers will have discovered that he is in fact reading the Purgatorio Canto XXII.” –Thaliarchus, Animanachronism, April 9, 2008
Learn more about Sunrise’s 2006 anime Code Geass here.
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Coggeshall, Elizabeth, and Arielle Saiber, eds. Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture. Website. Access date.