See the full text of Bonny Doon Vineyard’s “The Vinferno.”
Also cited at Mae’s Cafe and Bakery in Bath, Maine by Anna Schember (Bowdoin, ’12).
Tage Danielsson, “Mannen Som Slutade Roka” (“The Man Who Quit Smoking”) (1972)
“Young Dante Alighieri inherits 17 million of his father the sausage maker on one condition – he has to give up smoking in 14 days. But the days go on and he simply can’t quit. He hires a detective agency to physically stop him. He has an uncle, who inherits the money if Dante fails, and the uncle tries to keep him smoking.” –Mattias Thuresson, IMDb
Viewing the process as a kind of personal hell, this Dante has much in common with his Florentine namesake – including a love interest named Beatrice.
Mark E. Rogers, “Samurai Cat Goes to Hell” (1998)
In the last of the Samurai Cat series, Rogers uses Dante’s scheme of hell to frame the action.
“This comedic Inferno includes Nazi tyrannosaurs in dinosaur-sized tanks, characters resembling figures from the Oz books, Virtuous Pagans galore and Satan, who, though trapped in ice at the bottom of hell, wears pink panties and can send out projections in the shape of bad actors. The heroes are aided by felines from the other Samurai Cat books, a guardian angel named Henry and a mysterious ‘itinerant preacher’ who looks like Clint Eastwood.” –Publishers Weekly, Amazon
Ty Templeton, “Stig’s Inferno” (1980s)
This 1980s series ran for 8 volumes and was loosely based on Dante’s Inferno. See the full book at Templetons.
Samuel Beckett, “More Pricks Than Kicks” (1934)
“More Pricks Than Kicks is a collection of short prose by Samuel Beckett, first published in 1934. The stories chart the life of the book’s main character, Belacqua Shuah, from his days as a student to his accidental death. Beckett takes the name Belacqua from a figure in Dante’s Purgatorio, a Florentine lute-maker famed for his laziness. . . The opening story, ‘Dante and the Lobster,’ features Belacqua’s horrified reaction to the discovery that the lobster he has bought for dinner must be boiled alive. ‘It’s a quick death, God help us all’, Belacqua tells himself, before the narrator’s stern interjection to the contrary: ‘It is not.'” —Wikipedia
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