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inspiration from the Italian greats
Learn more about the inspirations behind my current works and projects.
Dante’s Inferno
How contemporaries in Dante’s Inferno helped to shape society’s understanding of love, lust, sin, and women’s bodily autonomy.
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
How the classic myths Ovid put to paper should be reimagined through the women in the stories themselves.
Female Rage in Italian Art
How feminism and re-telling female rage, desires, and passions is essential to all my writing.
Dante Alighieri wrote The Divine Comedy between 1308 and 1321. In the first book, Inferno, Dante and his guide Virgil meet the lamenting shades of Francesca and Paolo.
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) wrote Metamorphoses in 8 CE. In this sweeping narrative poem, Ovid attempted to tell the history of the world, from creation to the time his two feet walked Rome’s streets.
Female rage in Italian art derives from women’s disregard, oppression, and abuses so often depicted in literature and myth.
Veronica Guido 