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Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate

puckish — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:00:06 -0800

EA games releases a new adaptation of the epic Italian poem The Divine Comedy that casts the player as Dante - a crusade veteran - who journeys through the Nine Circles of Hell to save his beloved Beatrice. A 3D remake of the 14th century Christian epic, updated to include scythe combat, Beatrice's holy cross, melee action, and divine absolution. Steve Desilets, lead designer: “Obviously, we have to change a couple of verbs because watch and listen aren’t exciting to play....Hack, maim, torture those are basically your verbs, but the setting is loyal as we can actually be to the poem.” For starters: "Using a tameable, Dante has to rip off Charon’s massive head and throw it through a gate in hell. You’ll actually run across unbaptized babies, which are mentioned in the text. EA Redwood Shores imagines them as zergling creatures that have blades for feet and Dante will have to kill them as they skitter, spiderlike, across the floor." (from Gieson Cacho's review). Universal, Paramount, and MGM are already vying for film rights. Hardcasual suggests a few revisions. Of related interest: Previous video game adaptations, UV's amazing World of Dante, including searchable lists of Creatures, Deities, Images, People, Places, and Structures in each canto, Gustave Dore's illustrations of the Divine Comedy, maps and diagrams from the Princeton Dante Project, and other pretty things.

Great and marvellous are thy works...

hermitosis — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:51:32 -0800

The Book of Job, as illustrated by William Blake, in high resolution. He was 68 when he finished it in 1826, but died the following year before he could finish giving Dante's "Inferno" the same treatment. (Complete Blake Archive.)

A story of one man's search for the meaning of mortality and a nice pair of pants, maybe with pleats.

lekvar — Thu, 10 May 2007 21:04:39 -0800

Possibly the greatest comic-book ever written about a dead man wandering through Hell in search of his pants, Stig's Inferno is available online! Issues 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.

The Triangle Factory Fire of 1911

plep — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:45:26 -0800

The Triangle Factory Fire of 1911. 'This site includes selected information on a terrible and unnecessary tragedy involving the death of many young working women in a New York City sweatshop at the beginning of the 20th century and the resulting investigations and reforms. '

Dante's Inferno Test

pooligan — Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:55:50 -0800

Dante's Inferno Test. On which level of hell will you burn? (via Memepool)