Acclaimed animators Paul and Gaampeumltan Brizzi adapt Danteamprsquos literary classic Inferno in the sweeping dramatic style that brought The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Fantasia 2000 to life Literary aficionados will appreciate this decadent graphic novel adaptation which does not seek to sand down the source material Likewise adults whose imaginations were fueled by films like Disneyamprsquos Hunchback of Notre Dame as children which the Brizzi brothers animated sequences for will be swept up in this lushly illustrated adult fable unfettered by the demands of corporate animation studios Paul and Gaampeumltan Brizzi make this famously dense literary classic accessible without distorting it and betraying the spirit of the Italian genius They deftly translate it into comics while taking care to preserve the heart of the story a taste for excess dramatic tension and the inevitable darkness of the subject matter Guided by the poet Virgil Dante crosses the nine circles of Hell to find his beloved Beatrice in Paradise Along the way he must recognize and reject each of the incarnations of sin In each circle of Hell Dante confronts both sinners and demons from Cleopatra Helen of Troy Achilles and Paris whose loves were famously their downfall to the Greek Furies and Medusa to heretics like Epicurus whose teachings claimed that the soul died with the body now forced to writhe in a flaming tomb for eternity Each layer of Hell reveals monsters gods historical and mythological...
