La Divina parodia. Un’analisi socioculturale di Dante. La Divina Commedia a fumetti di Marcello Toninelli

The power of the imaginary, fueled by Dante’s Divina Commedia, has crossed centuries and the media, giving rise to a vast and heterogeneous collection of products of Dante’s legacy. The authors of Italian comics have been confronted several times with the “sacred” poem, but the only complete transposition of the work is Dante. La Divina Commedia a fumetti by Marcello Toninelli. This comic book translation has an ironic relationship with the source; dynamics and mechanisms of poetic narration are parodied and transferred into the language of comics. Toninelli creates a narrative machine for images in which, between innovation and imitation, it is also possible to re-discover the echo of the long and successful figurative tradition of the poem.