Comedìa Dantis Alagherii
Follow Dante's eschatological pilgrimage through Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso with Gustave Doré's illustrations of L'infer (1857), Purgatoire & Paradis (1867) and the musical commentary of W. A. Mozart's Requiem Mass (1791) and G. Verdi's Missa da Requiem (1874).
This presentation offers illustrations of famous scenes and characters in Dante's Commedia and presents the poetic trilogy as a unified whole using the Medieval Mass of the Dead to underscore the poem's fundamentally eschatological concern. For more about the structure of the poem and the architecture of the text, visit www.14233.org