Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction; Part I Dante in Performance: The Comedy as a text for performance, Peter Armour; Dante on the 19th-century stage, Richard Cooper; Dante's Inferno in the 1900s: from drama to film, Antonella Braida; From Dante to Dante Sonata, Jane E. Everson; 'La dolce sinfonia di Paradiso': can mere mortals compose it?, Maria Ann Roglieri. Part II Dante in the Visual Arts: The image of Dante, poet and pilgrim, Rachel Owen; Francesca observed: painting and illustration, c1790-1840, Nicholas Havely; Dante and the pre-Raphaelites: British and Italian responses, Guiliana Pieri; From Hell to Paradise or the other way round? Salvador Dali's Divina Commedia, Ilaria Schiaffini. Part III Dante in the Cinema and Multimedia: Francesca da Rimini: the movie, Amilcare A. Iannucci; Dante in the cinema or Dante and the cinema?, Christopher Wagstaff; From Dante's Inferno to A TV Dante: Phillips and Greenaway remediating Dante's polysemy, Luisa Calè. Coda: Wish you were here: postcards from the afterlife, Alex Cooper; Select bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Dr Antonella Braida is lecturer in Italian at the University of Durham, UK and Dr Luisa Cale is a lecturer in the School of English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Peter Armour, Antonella Braida, Jane E. Everson, Maria Ann Roglieri, Rachel Owen, Nicholas Havely, Guiliana Pieri, Ilaria Schiaffini, Amilcare A. Iannucci, Christopher Wagstaff, Luisa Cale, Alex Cooper.