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The Divine Comedy

Name: The Divine Comedy
Author: Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri

PublisherAngelico Press

Published2021-03-30

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Eugene DelacroixCeleb

3/2/2026

외젠 들라크루아는 단테의 신곡을 초기 대표작 '단테의 조각배'(1822)의 소재로 삼았다. 지옥편의 극적 장면을 회화로 변환하며 낭만주의 미술의 시작을 알렸고, 문학에서 시각적 극성을 추출하는 자신만의 창작 방식을 확립했다.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix

Frederic ChopinCeleb

3/2/2026

프레데리크 쇼팽은 단테의 신곡을 애독했다. 조르주 상드와 마요르카 체류 시절 이탈리아 문학을 함께 읽었으며, 단테의 서사적 감정 표현이 자신의 발라드 작곡에 영감을 주었다고 전해진다.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Chopin

Honore de BalzacCeleb

3/2/2026

오노레 드 발자크는 단테의 신곡에서 인간 세계의 총체적 서사를 구현하려는 야심을 배웠다. 인간희극의 제목 자체가 단테의 신곡에 대한 오마주이며, 사회 전체를 하나의 서사적 우주로 포괄하겠다는 기획의 원천이었다.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_de_Balzac

Alexander PushkinCeleb

3/2/2026

알렉산드르 푸시킨은 단테의 신곡을 반복하여 읽은 애독서로 꼽았다. 2000권에 달하는 개인 서재에 이탈리아어 원전을 소장했으며, 단테의 서사적 구조를 자신의 장시에 참조했다.

Source: https://www.rbth.com/arts/333710-books-pushkin-reread

Lorenzo de MediciCeleb

3/2/2026

로렌초 데 메디치는 단테의 신곡을 이탈리아 문학의 최고봉으로 숭배했다. 토스카나어 문학 전통의 수호자를 자처하며, 단테·페트라르카·보카치오의 작품을 적극 수집하고 보급했다.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_de%27_Medici

Karl MarxCeleb

3/1/2026

Dante was one of Marx's most beloved poets. According to Wilhelm Liebknecht, Marx had the Divine Comedy nearly memorized and would often recite entire passages aloud. The preface to Das Kapital ends with Dante's proud words: 'Follow your own course, and let people talk.' Engels called Dante 'a figure of incomparable classical perfection' and 'a towering giant.'

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/art/preface.htm

MichelangeloCeleb

3/1/2026

Michelangelo read the Divine Comedy so deeply that he could recite it from memory. His fixation was so extraordinary that he reportedly engaged in interpretation battles with Leonardo da Vinci over key passages. He called Dante "the greatest man who ever walked this earth" and directly incorporated imagery from the Inferno into the Last Judgment on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. For him, the Divine Comedy was not literature but a map of the soul and a wellspring of art.

Source: https://leben.us/michelangelo/

Mary ShelleyCeleb

3/1/2026

Mary Shelley studied Dante's Divine Comedy deeply and gave him detailed treatment in her later work Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men. She highly praised Villani's Chronicles for vividly illuminating the people and places of Dante's world.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley

Bertrand RussellCeleb

3/1/2026

Bertrand Russell taught himself Italian and then read Dante's Divine Comedy in the original language. In his autobiography he recorded "reading Dante and Machiavelli," showing that Russell was a relentless reader who would learn foreign languages in order to deepen his literary education.

Source: https://erenow.org/biographies/the-autobiography-of-bertrand-russell/4.php

Niccolo MachiavelliCeleb

3/1/2026

In a 1513 letter to Francesco Vettori, Niccolò Machiavelli wrote that he always carried a book of Dante or Petrarch in his pocket when he went walking. For Machiavelli, Dante's Divine Comedy was both a model of Tuscan literary style and a source of political imagination. Dante's argument for the separation of religion and politics connects directly to Machiavelli's secular political thought.

Source: https://fs.blog/niccolo-machiavelli-on-reading/