Gore and Glory DANTE ALIGHIERI'S `DIVINE COMEDY' HAS INSPIREDARTISTS AS DIVERSE AS ROSSETTI AND THE CHAPMAN BROTHERS. BUT WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES BOTTICELLI'S ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE POEM - ON SHOW AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY FROM THIS WEEK - THE GREATEST OF ALL? BY CATHERINE PEPINSTER

The Independent - London | March 11, 2001| | Copyright

Nobody has ever described heaven and hell in all their gore and glory in so influential a way as Dante Alighieri. Perhaps that is why the ideas of the visionary 14th-century Florentine poet can be found in the most disparate places: Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini, Rodin's The Kiss, Michael Dibdin's thriller A Rich Full Death, and the movie Hannibal are just a handful of creative endeavours which all owe a debt to Dante's tripartite work, La Divina Commedia, comprising the three parts Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso.

Although Dante was a writer, he was a master of the visual imagination ...

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