Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture
“A five year project which involved adapting the text of the entire “Divine Comedy” into contemporary slang and setting the action in contemporary urban America. The project resulted in three, limited edition books, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Each book contained more than 60 original lithographs and was published by Trillium Press in San Francisco.” —Sandow Birk
See also: Sandow Birk’s film “Dante’s Inferno” (2007)
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Contributed by Dien Ho
Contributed by Charlie Russell-Schlesinger (Bowdoin, ’08)
“After tossing around potential names for almost a year, the women decided to call their bakery Canto 6, from Dante’s Inferno, where Canto VI describes the circle of hell reserved for gluttons. ‘We always thought we’d end up there,’ says Emmott.” –Leigh Belanger, Boston.com, January 17, 2007 (retrieved on November 27, 2006)
Photo by Adam Cohen-Leadholm
Contributed by Adam Cohen-Leadholm (Bowdoin, ’07)
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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.
