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*Divine Comedy is 'offensive and discriminatory', says Italian NGO *
Human-rights organisation calls for Dante's 'racist, Islamophobic and
antisemitic' epic poem to be removed from classrooms
[image: Hell bent … a Gustave Doré engraving to accompany Canto 19 of
Dante's The Divine Comedy.]

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here:* Dante's medieval classic the Divine
Comedy <http://www.divinecomedy.org/>* *has been condemned as racist,
antisemitic and Islamophobic by a group calling for it to be removed from
classrooms.*

The epic poem, written in the 14th century, is split into three parts,
tracing the poet's journey through Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. It is
seen as one of the cornerstones of world literature. But the Italian human
rights organisation Gherush92 <http://www.gherush92.com/>, which advises UN
bodies on human rights issues, wants it to be removed from school
curriculums, or at least used with more caution, because it is "offensive
and discriminatory" and young people lack the "filters" to understand it in
context.

*Gherush92 singled out **some particular cantos from Dante's masterwork **for
criticism*: I*nferno's 34th, which tells of Judas, endlessly chewed in the
teeth of Lucifer, and 28th, in which Mohammed is depicted torn "from the
chin down to the part that gives out the foulest sound", as well as
Purgatorio's 26th, which shows homosexuals under a rain of fire in
purgatory. *The work, it says, slanders the Jewish people, depicts Islam
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/islam> as a heresy and is homophobic.
*"We do not advocate censorship or burning but *we would like it
acknowledged, clearly and unambiguously, that* in the Divine Comedy there
is racist, Islamophobic and antisemitic content," said Valentina Sereni,
president of Gherush92, to the Adnkronos news agency
<http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/News/Cronaca/Testo-di-Dante-e-razzista-via-la-Divina-Commedia-dai-programmi-scolastici_313078521667.html>.
"Art cannot be above criticism." *

But Italy's cultural scene has been quick to come to the defence of one the
country's most famous works. "The benefits to be gained from reading and
studying the Divine Comedy are so many that statements of this kind are
just ridiculous," the poet and literary critic Maurizio Cucchi told the
news agency. Literary historian, critic and author Giulio Ferroni called
the comments "another frenzy of political correctness, combined with an
utter lack of historical sense", and said that the Divine Comedy needed to
be read in its historical context. "You could also include a few more
notes, but it would be folly to abandon the study of a masterpiece that has
helped build the image of humanity."

Hell bent … a Gustave Doré engraving for Canto 19 of Dante's Divine Comedy.
Click for the full image. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis

Alison Flood <https://www.theguardian.com/profile/alisonflood>

Wednesday 14 March 2012 16.07 GMT First published on Wednesday 14 March
2012 16.07 GMT

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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here: Dante's medieval classic the Divine
Comedy <http://www.divinecomedy.org/> has been condemned as racist,
antisemitic and Islamophobic by a group calling for it to be removed from
classrooms.

The epic poem, written in the 14th century, is split into three parts,
tracing the poet's journey through Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. It is
seen as one of the cornerstones of world literature. But the Italian human
rights organisation Gherush92 <http://www.gherush92.com/>, which advises UN
bodies on human rights issues, wants it to be removed from school
curriculums, or at least used with more caution, because it is "offensive
and discriminatory" and young people lack the "filters" to understand it in
context.

Gherush92 singled out some particular cantos from Dante's masterwork for
criticism: Inferno's 34th, which tells of Judas, endlessly chewed in the
teeth of Lucifer, and 28th, in which Mohammed is depicted torn "from the
chin down to the part that gives out the foulest sound", as well as
Purgatorio's 26th, which shows homosexuals under a rain of fire in
purgatory. The work, it says, slanders the Jewish people, depicts Islam
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/islam> as a heresy and is homophobic.
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"We do not advocate censorship or burning but we would like it
acknowledged, clearly and unambiguously, that in the Divine Comedy there is
racist, Islamophobic and antisemitic content," said Valentina Sereni,
president of Gherush92, to the Adnkronos news agency
<http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/News/Cronaca/Testo-di-Dante-e-razzista-via-la-Divina-Commedia-dai-programmi-scolastici_313078521667.html>.
"Art cannot be above criticism."

But Italy's cultural scene has been quick to come to the defence of one the
country's most famous works. "The benefits to be gained from reading and
studying the Divine Comedy are so many that statements of this kind are
just ridiculous," the poet and literary critic Maurizio Cucchi told the
news agency. Literary historian, critic and author Giulio Ferroni called
the comments "another frenzy of political correctness, combined with an
utter lack of historical sense", and said that the Divine Comedy needed to
be read in its historical context. "You could also include a few more
notes, but it would be folly to abandon the study of a masterpiece that has
helped build the image of humanity."
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