“But interest in Dante has never waned in the 700 years since he died,” Alfie says. “When you have an actor like Tom Hanks starring in a movie adapted from best-selling novelist Dan Brown, you’re bound to get more questions about Dante than usual,” says Fabian Alfie, a professor in the University of Arizona department of French and Italian. Most recently, Dante’s work was adapted for the crime and mystery film Inferno, starring Tom Hanks. Medieval manuscript illuminators and artists, including Sandro Botticelli and Salvador Dalí, have produced paintings mirroring stories Dante told. (Credit: Getty Images)ĭante’s work has influenced or inspired music, novels, films, mobile apps, and even video games. “La commedia illumina Firenze” by Domenico di Michelino (1465). Yet, Dante’s nearly 700-year-old, three-part epic poem, the Divine Comedy-of which “Inferno” is the initial part-remains an influential piece of literature in exploring the origins of evil. The 14th-century Italian poet Dante Alighieri couldn’t have foreseen contemporary forms of hideous, malicious behavior-the Holocaust, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, genocide committed by ISIS.
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