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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_6768
dc.contributor.author	Canova Leonardo
dc.title	«L’Inferno va di pari passo col progresso!». Dante, Geppo e il fumetto umoristico italiano tra gli anni Cinquanta e Ottanta
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	Between the 1950s and the 1980s, Edizioni Bianconi published cult characters such as Trottolino, Nonna Abelarda, Popeye and Tom & Jerry. Among these is Geppo, the good devil chased out of Hell because he was unfit to carry out his duties. From the very first stories, the infernal setting favours the appearance of references to the first cantica of Dante’s Comedy. This essay focuses on two of these stories, by Giovan Battista Carpi and Sandro Dossi, which are considered significant in terms of the reception of Dante’s masterpiece in the comic strip medium.
dc.relation.ispartof	Italianistica. Nuova serie
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2021-11-15
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-08-24
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-566-7/linferno-va-di-pari-passo-col-progresso/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-565-0/007
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9514
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9522
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-566-7
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-565-0
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Comics
dc.subject	Comics
dc.subject	Dante
dc.subject	Dante
dc.subject	Humour
dc.subject	Humour
dc.subject	Inferno
dc.subject	Inferno
dc.subject	Intertestuality
dc.subject	Intertestuality
dc.subject	Italian linguistics
dc.subject	Italian linguistics

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«L’Inferno va di pari passo col progresso!»

Dante, Geppo e il fumetto umoristico italiano tra gli anni Cinquanta e Ottanta

Leonardo Canova Università di Pisa, Italia

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Between the 1950s and the 1980s, Edizioni Bianconi published cult characters such as Trottolino, Nonna Abelarda, Popeye and Tom & Jerry. Among these is Geppo, the good devil chased out of Hell because he was unfit to carry out his duties. From the very first stories, the infernal setting favours the appearance of references to the first cantica of Dante’s Comedy. This essay focuses on two of these stories, by Giovan Battista Carpi and Sandro Dossi, which are considered significant in terms of the reception of Dante’s masterpiece in the comic strip medium.

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Nov. 15, 2021

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Keywords: Inferno • Humour • Intertestuality • Italian linguistics • Comics • Dante

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