PaperDante, Disney's first illustrated story dedicated to the Supreme Poet

Disney also celebrates the 700th anniversary of Dante’s passing with the first illustrated story inspired by the Supreme Poet: PaperDante. A unique volume created by screenwriter Augusto Macchetto, illustrator Giada Perissinotto and colorist Andrea Cagol, featuring historical parodies of the Divine Comedy. Published by Giunti, it will be released on March 17, 2021: it will consist of 192 pages (48 pages of illustrated story and the parodies L’Inferno di Topolino by Guido Martina and Angelo Bioletto and L’Inferno di Paperino by Giulio Chierchini).

The story harks back to Dante’s childhood: PaperDante is about ten years old and loves to read and study, as well as to spend pleasant days at the villa in Camerata with his uncle Alighiero (Uncle Scrooge) and friends Lapo and Caterina. After a picnic, in the woods the young man heads in curiosity to the entrance of a stone quarry, from which he hears strange whispers. Here begins a fantastical journey with the rhymes he suddenly hears, “I found myself before a great black darkness, | and the feathers rizzed of my head | that the heart seized me with true terror. | And yet I said to myself, ”What if I enter, I?"

Serving as Beatrice will be PaperBice, an almost angelic and beautiful figure who shows Daffodil the light and guides him to the end of his journey.

“Disney could not miss the opportunity to celebrate Dante’s genius in its own way,” comments Veronica Di Lisio, Disney Libri editorial director for Giunti Editore. “The PaperDante tale is a poetic story, born and developed in Italy, that goes in search of the child Dante, about whom not much is known. The temptation to try to imagine a fact, an episode that may have impressed him in the years of his youth, only to resurface years later, inspiring him in the composition of the Divine Comedy, was irresistible. The encounter between the young duck and the Supreme Poet seemed to us like a light capable of opening a chink in the dark days, a spark inspiring a desire to know. The candlelight on the cover represents just that glimpse of light that Dante opened to his time.”

PaperDante, Disney's first illustrated story dedicated to the Supreme Poet

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