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December 22, 2009 By Professor Arielle Saiber

Contributed by Kati Woodford (Exeter High School)

Evelyn Paul, Stories from Dante (1911) Greeting Cards

September 17, 2009 By Professor Arielle Saiber

Spirit of the Ages’ Greeting Card Illustrations by Evelyn Paul for “Stories from Dante” (1911).

Contributed by Virginia Jewiss (Yale Humanities Program)

“Dante’s Conundrum” (2009)

July 22, 2009 By Professor Arielle Saiber

“Dante, torn between heaven and hell and between good and evil, must collect the heavenly Soul Jewels to determine his place in the hereafter, along the way Demons will try and thwart Dante by destroying the landscape of purgatory making it impossible to collect the Soul Jewels, but there is good on his side in the form of Cherubs that will lend a hand placing power-ups and special items to help him in his task.
Will the forces of good win out and lay open the gates to heaven? or will the Denizens of Hell, the vile Demons strike back and force Dante to a Millennia of Torment?, Dante’s fate is in your hands, do not fail him.
Fully Optimized for the iphone 3G and ipod touch, Dante’s Conundrum is a fast paced fun filled arcade style puzzle game that will provide hours of not stop action and fun pushing reflexes and mental prowess to the limit, enjoy dazzling graphics and multiple levels of play with the upgraded version or play the first level for free.” —http://mobile.e-axis.com/dante/ (retrieved July 22, 2009)

Contributed by Patrick Molloy

“Dante’s Inferno” EA Video Game

April 20, 2009 By Professor Arielle Saiber

“EA introduces an all new original property from the studio behind the hit horror game, Dead Space. The game is based on part one of the medieval epic poem, The Divine Comedy, commonly referred to as Dante’s Inferno, by Dante Alighieri. The dark fiction gave birth to the Tuscan Italian dialect and is widely considered the work that has defined the western world’s contemporary conception of hell and purgatory. The poem tells the tale of Dante who journeys through the twisted, menacing nine circles of hell in pursuit of his beloved Beatrice. Written in the 14th Century, The Divine Comedy, unlike the bible, was published and read aloud in the language of the Italian people, thereby making the poem accessible to the mass public. The poem delivers a striking and allegorical vision of the Christian afterlife and the punishments of hell. In part one, known as Dante’s Inferno, Dante traverses all nine circles of hell; limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery.” —EA Games

“Vita Nuova” and “Inferno”: a Compact Operating System for Building Cross-Platform Distributed Systems

March 8, 2009 By Professor Arielle Saiber

“People often ask where the names Plan 9, Inferno, and Vita Nuova originated.
Allegedly, Rob Pike was reading Dante’s Divine Comedy when the Computing Science Research Group at Bell Labs was working on Inferno. Inferno is named after the first book of the Divine Comedy, as are many of its components, including Dis, Styx and Limbo.
The company name Vita Nuova continues the association with Dante: his first work, a book of poetry about his childhood sweetheart Beatrice, was called La Vita Nuova. The literal translation of Vita Nuova is ‘New Life,’ which in the circumstances is surprisingly prophetic.
Plan 9 is named after the famous Ed Wood movie Plan 9 from Outer Space. There are no other connections except that the striking artwork for the products is a retro, 60s SciFi image modeled on the Plan 9 movie poster.’ —Vita Nuova

Contributed by Kavi Montanaro

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Evelyn Paul, Stories from Dante (1911) Greeting Cards

“Dante’s Conundrum” (2009)

“Dante’s Inferno” EA Video Game

“Vita Nuova” and “Inferno”: a Compact Operating System for Building Cross-Platform Distributed Systems

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