Dore’s illustrations of Dante remain hauntingly relevant in 2024. They also serve as a (modified) framework for Ric Burns’ well-timed PBS Dante series currently playing, significantly just before Easter weekend. (“Inferno” was the Good Friday book, so to speak, with “Purgatorio and Paradisio”–Easter, to follow.)
We are currently living in lost, dark times for the individual and society; hence, the relevance of Burns’ series about The Divine Comedy.