(W) Dante Alighieri (A) Paul Brizzi, Gaetan
Brizzi
Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante
crosses the nine circles of Hell to find his beloved, Beatrice, in
Paradise. Along the way, he must recognize and reject each of the
incarnations of sin. In each circle of Hell, Dante confronts both
sinners and demons, from Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Achilles, and
Paris, whose loves were famously their downfall, to the Greek
Furies and Medusa, to heretics like Epicurus, whose teachings
claimed that the soul died with the body, now forced to writhe in a
flaming tomb for eternity. Each layer of Hell reveals monsters,
gods, historical and mythological kings, philosophers, queens, and
hordes of the miserable, faceless damned, all culminating in a
confrontation with Lucifer himself. Paul and Ga tan Brizzi make
Dante's famously dense literary classic accessible without
distorting it and betraying the spirit of the Italian genius. They
deftly translate it into comics while taking care to preserve the
heart of the story: a taste for excess, dramatic tension, and the
inevitable darkness of the subject matter.
