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Dante's Inferno (other)
Dante's ''Inferno'' is the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem ''Divine Comedy''. Dante's Inferno may also refer to: Film * ''L'Inferno'', a 1911 Italian silent film by Giuseppe de Liguoro, loosely adapted from the ''Divine Comedy'' * ''Dante's Inferno'' (1924 film), a silent film about a slum landlord sent to hell * ''Dante's Inferno'' (1935 film), a film based around a fairground attraction depicting the inferno * ''Dante's Inferno'' (1967 film), a television film about the tortured life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti * ''Dante's Inferno'' (2007 film), a puppet comedy film version of Dante's hell Other uses * ''Inferno'', a modern retelling of ''Inferno'', written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle * Dante's Inferno (ride), created 1971, was located at Coney Island, New York, US * ''Dante's Inferno'', a 1993 album by Transmetal * "Dante's Inferno" (song), a 1995 song by Iced Earth * ''Dante's Inferno'' (video game), 2010 game based on Alighieri's poem ** '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dante's Inferno
''Inferno'' (; Italian for "Hell") is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem ''Divine Comedy''. It is followed by ''Purgatorio'' and '' Paradiso''. The ''Inferno'' describes Dante's journey through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine concentric circles of torment located within the Earth; it is the "realm ... of those who have rejected spiritual values by yielding to bestial appetites or violence, or by perverting their human intellect to fraud or malice against their fellowmen". As an allegory, the ''Divine Comedy'' represents the journey of the soul toward God, with the ''Inferno'' describing the recognition and rejection of sin. Prelude to Hell Canto I The poem begins on the night of Maundy Thursday on March 24 (or April 7), 1300, shortly before the dawn of Good Friday. The narrator, Dante himself, is thirty-five years old, and thus "midway in the journey of our life" (''Nel mezzo del cam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Inferno
''L'Inferno'' is a 1911 Italian silent film, loosely adapted from ''Inferno'', the first canticle of Dante Alighieri's ''Divine Comedy''. ''L'Inferno'' took over three years to make, and was the first full-length Italian feature film. Plot Dante is barred from entering the hill of salvation by three beasts that block his path ( Avarice, Pride, and Lust). Beatrice descends from above and asks the poet Virgil to guide Dante through the Nine Circles of Hell. Virgil leads Dante to a cave where they find the river Acheron, over which Charon ferries the souls of the dead into Hell. They also see the three-headed Cerberus and Geryon, a flying serpent with a man's face. They see the Devil eating human beings whole, harpies eating the corpses of suicides, an evil man forced to carry his own severed head for eternity, people half-buried in flaming lava, etc. There follows a series of encounters in which the two meet up with a number of formerly famous historical figures whose souls we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dante's Inferno (1924 Film)
''Dante's Inferno'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Henry Otto that was released by Fox Film Corporation and adapted from ''Inferno'', part of Dante Alighieri's epic poem ''Divine Comedy''. The film mixes material from Dante's "Inferno" with plot points from Charles Dickens' ''A Christmas Carol''. The book was filmed earlier in 1911 in Italy as ''L'Inferno'', and Fox later remade the film in 1935, again as ''Dante's Inferno'', starring Spencer Tracy in the lead role. Plot The tactics of a vicious slumlord and greedy businessman named Mortimer Judd finally drive a distraught man named Eugene Craig, whom he has forced into bankruptcy, to commit suicide. He constantly refuses requests for charity and treats his bedridden wife very badly. The businessman receives a copy of Dante's ''Inferno'' in the mail and reads it. In the story, a floating angel raises its sword and parts a legion of demons to allow Dante to pass, naked sinners burn in boiling tar and suicides ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dante's Inferno (1935 Film)
''Dante's Inferno'' is a 1935 American Drama (film and television), drama film starring Spencer Tracy and loosely based on Dante Alighieri's ''Divine Comedy''. The film remains primarily remembered for a 10-minute depiction of hell realised by director Harry Lachman, himself an established post-impressionism, post-impressionist Painting, painter. This was Fox Film, Fox Film Corporation's last film before the company merged with Twentieth Century Pictures to create 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation. Plot Jim Carter, a former stoker (occupation), stoker, takes over a funfair, fairground show, run by 'Pop' McWade, which depicts scenes from Dante's Inferno. He marries Pop's niece Betty and they have a son, Alexander. Meanwhile, the show becomes a great success, with Carter making it larger and more lurid. An inspector declares the fair unsafe but Carter bribes him into silence. There is a partial collapse at the fair which injures Pop. Recovering in hospital, he admonishes Carter and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dante's Inferno (1967 Film)
''Dante's Inferno: The Private Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poet and Painter'' (1967) is a feature-length 35 mm film directed by Ken Russell and first screened on the BBC on 22 December 1967 as part of '' Omnibus''. It quickly became a staple in cinemas in retrospectives of Russell's work. Using nonlinear narrative technique, it tells of the relationship between the 19th-century artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his model, Elizabeth Siddal.Russell' s Rossetti Bruxner, David. The Guardian 26 Nov 1966: 7. Plot The exhumation of Lizzie Siddal's desiccated body is seen, followed by a shot of Rossetti dancing among the flames of a bonfire of paintings by Reynolds and Gainsborough. A voice-over informs us that Rossetti is a founder of a revolutionary group of artists called the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The figure of the young Lizzie dressed as Joan of Arc appears above the flames. Lizzie is seen modelling for Millais' ''Ophelia'' and for a painting of Joan by Rossetti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dante's Inferno (2007 Film)
''Dante's Inferno'' is a 2007 comedy film performed with hand-drawn paper puppets on a theater stage. The film was adapted from the book "Dante's Inferno" by Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders (Chronicle Books, 2004), a modern update of the canticle ''Inferno'' from Dante Alighieri's epic poem ''Divine Comedy''. The film chronicles Dante's (voiced by Dermot Mulroney) journeys through the underworld, guided by Virgil (voiced by James Cromwell). The head puppeteer was Paul Zaloom and the puppets were designed by Elyse Pignolet and drawn by Sandow Birk. The film premiered January 20, 2007 at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival. The film has also been shown at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Sarasota Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, Silver Lake Film Festival, the Boston Underground Film Festival, and on the Ovation TV cable network. The voice cast includes actors associated with the ''Upright Citizens Brigade' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inferno (Niven And Pournelle Novel)
''Inferno'' is a fantasy novel written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, published in 1976. It was nominated for the 1976 Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel. Background The book drew inspiration from the geography of Dante's ''Inferno'' and the theology of C S Lewis's '' The Great Divorce'', which is that salvation and entry into paradise, via self-knowledge and repentance, can be achieved by all.Inferno notes, 2008 edition of novel, However, most of Hell's denizens in the novel either deny their sins or feel they deserve their fate. Plot summary ''Inferno'' is based upon the hell described in Dante's ''Inferno''. However, it adds a modern twist to the story. The story is told in the first person by Allen Carpenter (who spelled his name "Carpentier" on his novels), an agnostic science fiction writer who died in a failed attempt to entertain his fans at a science fiction convention party. He is only released, after many decades, from a Djinn-bottle in the Vestibu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Niven
Laurence van Cott Niven (; born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction writer. His best-known works are ''Ringworld'' (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards, and, with Jerry Pournelle, ''The Mote in God's Eye'' (1974) and ''Lucifer's Hammer'' (1977). The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named him the 2015 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. It also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes the series ''The Magic Goes Away'', rational fantasy dealing with magic as a non-renewable resource. Biography Niven was born in Los Angeles. He is a great-grandson of Edward L. Doheny, an oil tycoon who drilled the first successful well in the Los Angeles City Oil Field in 1892, and also was subsequently implicated in the Teapot Dome scandal. Niven briefly attended the Califor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Pournelle
Jerry Eugene Pournelle (; August 7, 1933 – September 8, 2017) was an American scientist in the area of operations research and human factors research, a science fiction writer, essayist, journalist, and one of the first bloggers. In the 1960s and early 1970s, he worked in the aerospace industry, but eventually focused on his writing career. In an obituary in ''Gizmodo'', he is described as "a tireless ambassador for the future." Pournelle's hard science fiction writing received multiple awards. In addition to his solo writing, he wrote several novels with collaborators including Larry Niven. Pournelle served a term as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Pournelle's journalism focused primarily on the computer industry, astronomy, and space exploration. From the 1970s until the early 1990s, he contributed to the computer magazine ''Byte'', writing from the viewpoint of an intelligent user, with the oft-cited credo, "We do this stuff so you won't ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dante's Inferno (ride)
Dante's Inferno was a dark ride created in 1971 by Anton Schwarzkopf that was located at Astroland on Coney Island; a similar ride, Dante's Dungeon (originally also called Dante's Inferno), is at Morey's Piers in Wildwood, New Jersey. Dante's Inferno is decorated with a purple Cerberus in each tower, a werewolf out of one window, and skeleton warriors in another, its exterior's centerpiece is a large devil holding a victim in his hand that is connecting to the tongue of an upside-down, lolling eyed creature, and a pitchfork in the other. The ride's exterior resembles a castle, and its open area is decorated in graffiti style artwork including Medusa's severed head held by a Grim Reaper, as well as a mad scientist and several dragons. The passenger rides in a bumper car-like device and is sent through a maze of dark hallways. Most of the interior imagery is behind glass cases, including a dead woman rising off a table, a shaking mummy case, two gorillas, a werewolf popping out fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transmetal (band)
Transmetal is an extreme metal band formed in Ciudad Azteca, Ecatepec, Mexico in 1987 by brothers Javier, Juan, and Lorenzo Partida. They are known as one of the most important metal bands in Latin America. Their most well known song is "Killers" from the ''Desear un Funeral'' EP (1989), which is a cover of French band . During their career, Transmetal have released over 30 albums which experiment in thrash and death metal, with the vocals styles based on growling. The band has also participated in shows with other notable bands such as Slayer, Sepultura, Overkill, and Kreator. Band members Current *Juan Partida – lead guitar (1987–present) *Lorenzo Partida – bass (1987–present) *Javier Partida – drums (1987–present) *Sergio Burgos – lead vocals (2014–present) *Arturo Cabrera – rhythm guitar (2014–present) Former *Alberto Pimentel – lead vocals, rhythm guitar (1987–1990, 1992–1998, 2007–2009) *Alejandro González – lead vocals (1990–1992) *Mau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dante's Inferno (song)
"Dante's Inferno" is a song by the American heavy metal band Iced Earth. The song was originally released on the group's 1995 album '' Burnt Offerings'', and was re-recorded in 2011, with the current line-up of the band. "Dante's Inferno" is also one of the longest songs the band has ever recorded, with the original clocking in at sixteen minutes and twenty-six seconds and the re-recorded version clocking in at seventeen minutes and twenty-eight seconds. Lyrics The song is based on the ''Inferno'' -segment of Dante Alighieri's ''Divine Comedy''. In it, Dante travels through the nine circles of Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. The circles are concentric, representing a gradual increase in wickedness, and culminating at the centre of the earth, where Satan is held in bondage. Each circle's sinners are punished in a fashion fitting their crimes: each sinner is afflicted for all of eternity by the chief sin they committed. Live After its release in 1995, the song was only p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
