Brazilian metal band, Solulitary released their demo titled Demo 1, using Gustave Doré’s The Lustful as the album art.
Find the demo here.
Find The Lustful by Gustave Doré here.
Contributed by Gianluca Giuseffi Grippa
Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture
By Cory Balon
By Cory Balon
Subterranean Forgotten Caverns is an album released in 2004 by the metal band Ghoul. The art for the album cover is the illustration, Evil Counsellors, by Gustave Doré. The illustration is from Canto 26 of the Inferno.
Find Subterranean Forgotten Caverns here.
Find Evil Counsellors Gustave Doré here.
Contributed by Gianluca Giuseffi Grippa
By Cory Balon
By Cory Balon
“Nuruddin Farah’s ninth novel in English, Links, makes a mainly para-textual use of Dante’s Commedia, implicitly validating its canonical status both within Italian literary tradition and world literature as a whole. The epigraphs chosen for each part of the book come from Dante’s Inferno, except the first three exergues…
“Through the references to Dante’s Commedia, Jeebleh’s journey is configured from the beginning as a descent to hell, represented by the city of Mogadishu during the civil war.” [. . .] –Simone Brioni, Lorenzo Mari, Postcolonial Dante: Reading the Commedia in Mogadishu, 2019
Access Links by Nuruddin Farah here.
Contributed by Simone Brioni (Ph.D., Stony Brook University)
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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.