Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture
“An Illinois federal judge invoked the poet Dante in a description of fee litigation as an ‘inner circle of judicial hell’ as he imposed a $2.5 million attorney fees sanction for discovery violations in long-running trademark dispute between rival e-cigarette companies.” — Carolyn Muyskens, “Judge Invokes Dante’s Inferno In $2.5M Sanctions Order,” Law360, October 7, 2022.
[. . .] “There are circles of hell for men such as Trump, and also for their enablers. For people who ought to know better but who go along with the inane, violent, crooked impulses of The Boss for reasons of political expediency. Barr is one such man.
“Dante reserved an entire section of hell for opportunists. Such people would, he wrote, be condemned to chase banners, and in turn to be chased by hornets and wasps, for all eternity.
“And this blind life of theirs is so debased,
They envious are of every other fate.
No fame of them the world permits to be;
Misericord and Justice both disdain them.” –Sasha Abramsky, The Abramsky Report, April 27, 2019
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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.
