Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here Part 1

Images courtesy of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Images courtesy of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library and EA.

In this first of two episodes, I will be discussing Dante's Inferno, the poem, and the video game and how similar they are.

Sources mentioned in the episode and a complete list of sources for the episode:

Alighieri, Dante. 2003. The Divine Comedy. Translated by John Ciardi. Illustrated edition. New York: Berkley.

Dante's Inferno Video game developed by Visceral Games and published by Electronic Arts