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The Divine Comedy
Divine Comedy
also: Inferno
Dante Alighieri's early-14th-century Italian epic poem; its Inferno inscription 'Abandon all hope, ye who enter here' is quoted here by Triletsky in mock despair at finding no one memorable in the district.
Reading notes
- Untitled Play (Bezottsovshchina / "Platonov") §2187 Lasciate, Mikhail Vasilyich, ogni speranza!
"Abandon all hope" (Italian) -- the inscription over the gate of Hell in Dante's Inferno (canto III), quoted here by Trilecky in mock despair at finding neither himself nor Platonov among the celebrated "Men of Our Time."
- The Cynic §9 the very same hell of Dante's: abandon all hope
Syusin quotes the inscription over the gate of Hell from Dante's Inferno (Canto III: "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate"), applying it mockingly to the caged wildcat.