Italian heavy ba
nd, Untory, released their demo, Holy Rites, on cassette in 1993. The cassette’s cover art is Gustave Doré’s illustration, Thieves.
Find the album here.
Find Gustave Doré’s illustration here.
Contributed by Gianluca Giuseffi Grippa
“Спаси и схорони” by 3,14. . .
The song “Спаси и схорони” from the album ПОХОРОНЫ ЛУЧШЕГО ДРУГА is a 2011 release from the Azerbaijani metal band named 3,14. . .. For the release of the single they used Gustave Doré’s illustration from Purgatorio canto 24, titled The Gluttons. Nuruddin Farah, Links (2004)
“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)
