The readings of the dantesque Commedia

Abstract

When a literary work is published, the publisher who does it and, properly, the author who writes it, expects it to be well criticized and, consequently, to achieve the merits within the readers, but that only time can tell. Those that achieve success are called canons or classics. Dante Alighieri's Commedia is an example. Since his writing, in the fourteenth century, to this day, the Dantesque work has inspired many writers worldwide. The present work intends to list some works, in poetry, prose and in the cinema, which originated from the Italian poem. It is important to highlight that we do not intend to discuss all the works here, since it is believed that over seven centuries there is an extremely extensive list of publications that had Commedia as starting point. As a theoretical reference for this article, the work of Italo Calvino and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, with the rhizomes theory, will be used.