Dante Book III Introduction

 Part Three (Final segment of Dante’s Inferno Adaptation)

 

Introduction and Notes to the Tale.

Part Three

I am into Canto XXVI which allowed me seven more Cantos to complete the First Tale of Three in Dante’s Divine Comedy. I had researched the follow-up to Inferno; how many other works there were on these two parts.

The Divine Comedy has been a source of inspiration for countless artists for almost seven centuries. Inferno had been adapted much with many references to the Inferno. The other two tales, Purgatorio and Paradise were fewer and most times it was referenced in parts like in Franz Liszt's Symphony to Dante's Divina Commedia (1856) has a "Purgatorio" movement, as does Robert W. Smith's The Divine Comedy (2006). 

Chaucer and others have referenced the Purgatorio in their writing. Many visual artists have depicted scenes from the Purgatorio, including Gustave Doré, John Flaxman, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John William Waterhouse, and William Blake. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purgatorio).

There are a few and even stated on Wikipedia which I re-produce here which I will delve into with more readings later.

Back to Inferno, I am taking a risk of my own with more narrative of my own, and an ending unexpectedly from the original. It was inspired when I was driving during a rainstorm and being trapped between cars, and what else, my mind drifted to the tale. I had some great thoughts to my tale, unfortunately, like the dream of the morning, you wake up and the RAM in your mind goes into clearing mode…unless you grab the last of it before it gets cleared. Reminds me of the supermarket clearance and I am there grabbing the bargains.

Fortunately, at the prevailing RAM was still running at 7200 RPM (aka old Hard Disk Performance) I managed to get scraps of it when I had the time to recollect my thoughts. I had to admit it had to re-constructed in the mind and alike Frankenstein, it was not perfect as what the blueprint displayed but workable. I guess I have to get a voice recorder to do the works but I had to admit recording it could be embarrassing like I had to tell my client explaining the ‘I want’ list in the meeting, and my hand shot up.

“I need to use the bathroom. Can you please wait? It looked like mine may take some minutes. Purgatory at works. .”

Sadly, it doesn’t work that way. And no, I do listen to their ‘wants’ and do the needful only. If I were to do it all, I will be the called Shylock by then, added on with a blunt scalpel for the removal. I won’t mind the hours for I am paid by the hours.

Whatever it was, please enjoy the remaining Cantos of Inferno adaption. Don’t curse me for it. I was trapped in between cars and showered with a hail storm, and a full bladder with the scrotum pressing it down.

And like what Aeneas did with the Divine Comedy, I took on the passages with satirical words. We are living in a world with unusual times, and what better way to review it than with a touch of dark comedy. You may find here, I diverted my writings from the original although I maintained the main plots. I also ignored the ‘religious sections’ for to write that here may be seen as ‘sacrilege’ so I stepped away from it. Regardless of that, I will give it my best rendition of ‘I did it my way’.

After all, we are writing of Hell here.