"The Divine Comedy, Collection of Illustrations of the Cantos" is the new publishing project from Douglas Edizioni, which will be presented at the Pio Monte della Misericordia. Three days dedicated to Dante Alighieri's masterpiece and to art:
from Thursday 15th to Sunday 18th September, the “Fronte Strada” Gallery of the Pio Monte della Misericordia will host an exhibition of the works of the artists participating in the first three volumes of the work;
Saturday 17 September at 17.00:XNUMX pm in the courtyard of the Institution in via Tribunali, the meeting to present the project will be held. Together with the authors, Marco Chiuchiarelli, publisher Douglas Edizioni, Melania Panico, poet and essayist, Simone Prisco, art director, Maurizio Burale, events manager Pio Monte della Misericordia will speak.
After having been illustrated by great artists over the centuries, Douglas Edizioni has created a contemporary version of the Divine Comedy, entrusting the “vision” of the one hundred cantos that, through the three canticles of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, form the entire Comedy, to artists from the most diverse fields of the world of figurative art: illustrators, painters, engravers, cartoonists, sculptors, tattoo artists.
Each author was inspired by a Canto or a Cantica of Dante's masterpiece using different techniques in various formats: some artists worked on canvas, paper, others digitally, others with various techniques.
A work in progress that has so far involved nineteen artists who, since 2021, in the year of the celebrations for the seven hundredth anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, have created highly suggestive and touching illustrations to remember the most important literary work of all time: Elena Castiglia, Tania Merenda, Emilia Maria Chiara Petri, Anna Laura Gargiulo, Flavia Morra, Fiamma Ficcadenti, Aurora Cantone, Simone Prisco, Enzo Troiano, Ciro Sannino, Matteo Di Napoli, Gabriele Cioffi, Marco Capuozzo, Fabio Fiordelisi, Mirko Serino, Stefano Cardoselli, Evimedol, Luigi Barricelli, Marco Chiuchiarelli.
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A demanding and ambitious project, coordinated by Stefano Chiuchiarelli, to pay homage to the Supreme Poet through a new illustrated edition of the Comedy.
The work includes not only artists from different branches of art but also from any geographical location in Italy: Campania first and foremost, Tuscany, Emilia Romagna, Lazio and, for future images that will complete the Comedy, it will also be possible to draw from other regions.
The publication includes a total of five binders, which will be combined into a single, majestic volume as soon as the one hundred illustrations are ready. Three binders have been created so far, each containing 20 A4 prints depicting 20 Cantos of the Divine Comedy. (Printed on 250 gsm paper - cost of each binder: €25).
Professionals from the world of art and aspiring professionals together, therefore, to illustrate the masterpiece of Italian literature. An initiative promoted by Pio Monte della Misericordia which hosts the exhibition and presentation of the project at its headquarters in via Tribunali and which, above all, shares with Douglas Edizioni the intent to offer a springboard to young talents who are increasingly struggling to find space in our society.
The works are available through the publishing house's website - https://www.douglasedizioni.com/la-divina-commedia/ - and at The Spark Mondadori Bookstore in Naples and the Casa Museo di Dante in Florence.
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