![]() ![]() Like many other greats from Italy's past – Giotto, Leonardo, Michelangelo – Dante is usually known only by his first name, which is a diminutive of "Durante." The "Divine Comedy" was also a key inspiration for Oscar-nominated thriller "Se7en," for a popular video game ("Dante's Inferno") and is quoted in popular TV series such as "Mad Men."īret Easton Ellis' black comedy "American Psycho" opens with the epigraph: "Abandon hope all ye who enter here" – one of the most used quotes from the "Inferno." Durante, but call me Dante ![]() These include everyone from Sandro Botticelli, William Blake, Salvador Dali and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, to the creators of X-Men comic books and novelist Dan Brown.Īuguste Rodin's famous "The Kiss" sculpture depicts Paolo and Francesca, the adulterous lovers Dante meets in the second circle of hell. Generations of writers, painters, sculptors, musicians, filmmakers and cartoonists have been inspired by the "Divine Comedy," particularly its "Inferno" (hell). ![]() Meanwhile, Argentine writer and bibliophile Jorge Luis Borges considered the "Divine Comedy" as "the best book literature has ever achieved." Dante in popular culture ![]() Eliot famously said: "Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them there is no third." ![]()
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