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...play is based on the story of Francesca and Paolo, from Dante's Inferno. Francesca, the beautiful wife of Giovanni Malatesta, a hunchbacked nobleman, is in love with her husband's brother, Paolo. Paolo has visited Francesca every day for a year to read her romantic poetry. One day he reads her the tale of how Launcelot first kissed Queen Guenivere, and that day is "the day they read of it no more." When Giovanni sees them Jeave arm in arm, he decides to murder them...
Fellini's admitted moral dualism, in which his Roman Catholic upbringing wars with his present nihilism, comes into play. Eager to have an audience with an elderly cardinal, Mastroianni is led, like a sheet-wrapped Dante, down into a fumy inferno where the cardinal is stewing his skinny bones in a steam bath. Then, in a dream, Mastroianni sees himself as the black-cloaked master of a harem surrounded by all the women of his life, who adoringly bathe him, dry him, and carry him to dinner wrapped in a blanket...
There are enough villains to populate Dante's Inferno: priests, bishops, mothers, fathers, Falangists, high society, low society, expatriates. Del Castillo is a kind of chatty Virgil who takes his readers on a tour of these monsters, pausing before them for ponderous comments like "Oh, the mysteries of life." It is not that the light touch is beyond Del Castillo. A felicitous phrase occasionally escapes him: they had "the habit of sprinkling theft and graft with holy water." It is just that he cannot refrain from constantly clubbing his characters senseless. In a matter of three pages, he manages...
...were killed, and of another 120 hospitalized, ten were not expected to survive. Eight of the dead lost their lives from huge hunks of hot metal plunging through the roofs of their homes. Four people in a taxi were crushed and killed by falling wreckage. Ulus Square became an inferno of flame and choking smoke as fires touched off by a burst gas main burned out of control for two hours. Fire trucks and ambulances could not get to the scene, slowed to a crawl by the hundreds of screaming, shoving and panicky people who blocked the narrow streets leading...
...over his features as he hurried down the tiled hallway toward the main elevator. Checking to see that no one watched him, he slipped into a dark alcove and fitted a key into what looked like a closet door. "Section X," be exclaimed as he plunged into the fabled Inferno that holds pornography and anything else the library suspects will be stolen or mutilated. Frenetically, Gridley re-examined some of his old favorites: Robinson's Sexual Truths, Curiosa of the Flagellants, and The Hindu Art of Love. Finally, he came to rest on the thirty volume set, Eastern Love...