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Dante's Inferno: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

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Acclaimed animators Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi adapt Dante's literary classic Inferno in the sweeping, dramatic style that brought The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Fantasia 2000 to life

In this powerful graphic novel adaptation, each layer of Hell reveals monsters, gods, historical and mythological kings, philosophers, queens, and hordes of the miserable, faceless damned, all culminating in a confrontation with Lucifer himself.

Literary aficionados will appreciate this decadent graphic novel adaptation, which does not seek to sand down the source material.

And adults whose imaginations were fueled by films like Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame as children, which the Brizzi brothers animated sequences for, will be swept up in this lushly illustrated adult fable, unfettered by the demands of corporate animation studios.

Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi make this famously dense literary classic accessible without distorting it and betraying the spirit of the Italian genius. They deftly translate it into comics while taking care to preserve the heart of the story: a taste for excess, dramatic tension, and the inevitable darkness of the subject matter.

Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante crosses the nine circles of Hell to find his beloved, Beatrice, in Paradise. Along the way, he must recognize and reject each of the incarnations of sin.

In each circle of Hell, Dante confronts both sinners and demons, from Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Achilles, and Paris, whose loves were famously their downfall, to the Greek Furies and Medusa, to heretics like Epicurus, whose teachings claimed that the soul died with the body, now forced to writhe in a flaming tomb for eternity.

Book Details

Publisher:
Abrams Comicarts
ISBN:
9781419776755
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
160
Authors:
Dante Alighieri
Published Date:
2024-11-19
Language:
English

About Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (c. 1265–1321) was a Florentine poet regarded as a father of the Italian literary language. His Divine Comedy, composed between roughly 1308 and 1321, comprises three canticles — Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso — and narrates a journey through the afterlife. Written in the Tuscan vernacular rather than Latin, it shaped the standard for literary Italian. His earlier La Vita Nuova (c. 1293) combines verse and prose addressed to Beatrice Portinari. Sentenced to exile from Florence in 1302, he never returned to the city and died in Ravenna in 1321.

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