The Divine Comedy becomes a Manga!

Yet another adaptation of genius, from Japan this time, is not about technology but one of the masterpieces of Italian literature of the fourteenth century, the Divine Comedy, which becane a Japanese manga . Yes that's right, you heard me!

The cover of a Divine Comedy Manga.

The author, known as Kiyoshi Nagai Gō Nagai, Japanese cartoonist and writer, is considered one of the greatest manga creators ever.

A panel from Nagai's Manga interpretation of the Divine Comedy.

Since the publication of Comedìa it has gone about seven hundred years without ever having ceased to stimulate the imagination of countless intellectuals, painters and engravers; before then designers too were being confronted with the imagination of the Florentine writer. A sort of challenge to the tale of Dante from all parts of the world .
In his Dante Shinkyoku, published in 1994 , the author takes us through the three parts of all the spiritual journeys of Dante proposing a new interpretation, a new style, a new relationship with the contemporary. To inspire Gō Nagai was probably a lithograph of the Divine Comedy illustrated by Gustave Doré .

Another panel from a Divine Comedy Manga interpretation.

The style of narration is simple and fast, accessible to any audience of readers.

by Cristina