Divine Comedy + Decameron discussion

What are the major works influenced by Inferno and the rest of the Divine Comedy?

I plan on reading Blood Meridian subsequent to the Inferno. I have no idea if McCarthy was actually influenced by Dante, but suspect it will enrich my reading regardless... Still curious though, anybody know?

I have no idea if the work influenced McCarthy, but Blood Meridian is one heck of a violent book! Highly recommended!


J.S. Bailey's Rage's Echo was obviously influenced by the Divine Comedy.

It's not a book, but if Dante inspires you to go on a pilgrimage you could always head down to Buenos Aires and check out the Palacio Barolo

From: http://sebald.wordpress.com/

"Elisabeth Tonnard’s In this Dark Wood pairs ninety different translations of the opening tercet from Dante’s Inferno with a similar number of photographs from the archive of Joseph Selle, housed at the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester NY. Elisabeth Tonnard is Dutch-based artist and poet who has made a number of artist’s books that often fuse existing texts and photographs."
This might be inspiring.

I haven't read it yet, but this Larry Niven 1975 Inferno book sounds like a modern version of Dante:

After being thrown out the window of his luxury apartment, science fiction writer Allen Carpentier wakes to find himself at the gates of hell. Feeling he's landed in a great opportunity for a book, he attempts to follow Dante's road map. Determined to meet Satan himself, Carpentier treks through the Nine Layers of Hell led by Benito Mussolini, and encounters countless mental and physical tortures. As he struggles to escape, he's taken through new, puzzling, and outlandish versions of sin--recast for the present day.

This may be of interest- the 110 books in which The Divine Comedy is mentioned:

https://www.smalldemons.com/books/The...

You need to click on each book.

ReemK10 (Paper Pills) wrote: "This may be of interest- the 110 books in which The Divine Comedy is mentioned:

https://www.smalldemons.com/books/The...

You need to click on each book."

That looks like a fun one to sort through once this year's reading has been accomplished.

I just got pointed to this forum yesterday. ADORED Ciardi's Inferno when I read it lo these many years ago. Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle is a direct take on Dante's Inferno. I got a real kick out of seeing how they modernize a lot of the sins; I picked it for a book discussion club. I'm not politically inclined, and hadn't noticed it was full of Pournelle's politics. Oh well.

This may be way less obvious, but a friend of mine (who's read "The Divine Comedy" more than once) found its structure in Michael Cunningham's Specimen Days. My friend's review is here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I'm writing one :) but it's not major or finished yet...