Dante Today

Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture

Go To Hell! The Game

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“Whoever thought that telling someone to ‘Go to Hell!’ would be a compliment? Gather your friends and family together for a devilish dash through the fiery pits of Dante’s Inferno! Compete with your loved ones to be the first to make your way through all seven deadly sins and go to Hell. It includes one gameboard, one die, four game pieces and 20 Hell Cards! Just don’t get sent to Heaven unless you have the Get Out of Heaven Free card. It’s a race to the bottom that’s so much fun, it’s sinful!”    —Archie McPhee, 2018.

You can buy Go To Hell! The Game on Archie McPhee’s website.

Contributed by Austin Wilkes, Florida State University, 2017

Devilman Lady Vol. 16 Chapter 7 – Demon Lord Dante

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“Ryo Utsugi makes another appearance in one of Go Nagai’s works, ‘Devilman Lady‘. This time, he is the reincarnation of Dante Alighieri, Mao Dante. He can be found in Hell where Devilman Lady must combat him.” — Contributor Savannah Mikus

Check out the full chapter here. Devilman Lady Vol.16 was originally published by Kodansha on July 21st, 2000.

Click here for another post about Go Nagai’s 1971 manga Mao Dante.

Contributed by Savannah Mikus (Florida State University BA ’20, MA ’22)

Fantasia (1940)

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“The last segment of the 1940 movie Fantasia features the devil Chernabog who awakes on Bald Mountain and is seen torturing restless souls and throwing them into a fiery volcano.  What I particularly love about that piece is that Chernabog is banished by the chorus of monks chanting Ave Maria as the journey into the nearby cathedral.”    -Samuel Gray

(Contributed by Samuel Gray, University of Mary Washington, ’18)

Homer Simpson’s Donut Hell

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Hell-Ironic-Punishments-Division-Door-SimpsonsThe Simpsons’ “Treehouse of Horror IV” (S05E05): after losing his soul to the devil in a bargain over a donut, Homer is subjected to punishments in Hell’s “Ironic Punishments Division,” where the demon in charge of force-feeding him donuts is astonished at his capacity.

See a clip from the episode on YouTube.

See also the action figure released by MacFarlane Toys (pictured below).

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Dante as guide in “Coco” (2017)

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Miguel and Dante

 

[…] “Miguel, the 12-year-old protagonist of ‘Coco,’ embarks on such a quest. Along with his companion, a stray dog fittingly named Dante, he treks through the underworld while facing obstacles and bad omens that pop up constantly. (In Spanish ‘coco’ means ‘boogeyman,’ which is a nickname for the devil.) But since this is a children’s movie, the challenges bring laughter, which isn’t altogether alien to Mexico’s approach to death. To laugh at death in Mexico is to be courageous.” […]    –Ilan Stavans, The New York Times, December 11, 2017

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