Digital Dante

The great Poet of Modernity, the Anglo-American T.S. Eliot, said in the mid-20th century that Dante is 'easy to read'. Today, the 'readability' of the Divine Comedy is particularly enhanced by audiovisual and digital resources. The course aims to highlight, starting from the most famous episodes of the “Inferno”, “Purgatorio”, and “Paradiso”, the main forms of attention to Dante's work in the contemporary multimedia horizon.

Students will study not only the author Dante, but, also and above all, see how the Divine Comedy is used as the subject matter of cinema, television, music, theater, comics, and performative art.