Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture
In an essay for Vulture Rachel Handler compares Lindsay Lohan’s new Netflix movie, Falling for Christmas, to Dante’s Divine Comedy: “She must travel through each circle of hell, including Heresy, where she eats bacon despite saying she ‘doesn’t do bacon,’ and Treachery, wherein she learns that her fiancé was gay all along and using her for clout.” –Rachel Handler, “Netflix’s Falling for Christmas Is a Dante’s Inferno-esque Allegory,” Vulture (November 10, 2022)
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During the 2018 holiday season, Kinder Italia ran this advertisement, featuring the Befana dressed as Dante, lamenting the “selva di calze infinita” at the supermarkets. Click the image below to view the full ad, available on YouTube.
Contributed by Ludovica Valentini (Florida State University, MA ’18)
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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.
