Lucifer, Hell XXXIV Genealogies and metamorphoses in three contemporary visual interpretations: Martini, Dalì, Incerti

This contribution focuses on the analysis of some twentieth-century figurative reinterpretations of Lucifer, the protagonist of Inferno’s canto XXXIV. Among the many artists who tried their hand at illustrating the Comedy, three were chosen (Alberto Martini, Achille Incerti, Salvador Dalì), as they were considered exemplary of the main possible approaches towards Dante’s text: from the extreme “cannibalistic” appropriation of the work in an autobiographical direction to that of updating its meanings in a historical key.