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For an archaeology of Dantilio fan art

DG Rossetti, Paolo and Francesca da Rimini, triptych, 1855

Hell Maiden feels like if Dante was reborn today and he spent his entire formative years getting into Yuri before writing a sequel

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going down those long spiral stairs to the tube bc the escalators are broken

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Classes :P

Yes I am back

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Dante and Beatrice. Pencil on paper. Source: #CardComics on IG

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whatever *ao3's your dante*

behold, the first fanfiction writer

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History had its own Homeric retelling craze

What today we call centos are poems, typically, though not exclusively, Christian in content, which are composed with a technique that flourished from the third to the seventeenth century that evoked stitching, weaving, and needlework. Their authors draw lines chiefly from Virgil (in the Latin-speaking world) or from Homer (in the Greek-speaking world) to compose new poems, both secular and Christian. Homeric Centos are poems made up entirely of verses lifted verbatim, with, occasionally, only slight modification, from the Iliad and Odyssey.

In terms of ancient readership, the Christian exegetes’ strong condemnation of the cento practice suggests that the laity was quite fond of this kind of poetry, which demanded that the audience play an active role in decoding its meaning.

The Homeric Centos: Homer and the Bible Interwoven, Anna Lefteratou (2023)