The world of Medieval Europe and Renaissance Italy is quite the extraordinary journey that captivates me. If you think trying to figure out where the Founding Fathers would lie on today's political spectrum, try and decipher the complex web of political medieval Italy - a country (though not a nation-state) in constant civil war mode - and where Dante would fit. For the record he was a White Guelph.
If it's a question determined to be relevant.
When I first read the Inferno it's images instantly invaded my imagination. There's a remarkable poetic cadence to Dante's literature. So much so, my script (which was a semi-finalist in a contest in the United States), was loosely based on The Inferno.
Many artists and thinkers over the centuries have explored Dante - one of Western culture's greatest writers who set the tone for literary models for posterity. Personally, I thoroughly enjoy Salvador Dali's paintings commemorating Dante's 700th anniversary.
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