![]() ![]() Rumi Handen felt her image of hikers on Pikes Peak captured the emotion “courage.” Photo: Diana Tyszko. Promoted by the Faculty of Arts & Science’s Department of Italian Studies, in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto, the exhibition “How Does it Feel? Dante’s Emotions Today” invited scholars, students and artists to create artistic representations of the seven main emotions displayed at the beginning of Dante’s Inferno I and II: fear, courage, hope, love, compassion, desire and joy. ![]() The Inferno describes Dante's journey through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman/Latin poet Virgil. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. The Inferno is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's epic poem The Divine Comedy, written between 13. A group of artists and graduate students offered their interpretations of the “emotions” presented in the opening scene of one of the world’s most celebrated works of medieval literature - Dante’s Inferno. ![]()
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