Hello everyone, this is the little year. But anyone who has learned about Devil May Cry knows that the inspiration for the Devil Cry series of games is the Divine Comedy, and many of the settings in it are also from the Divine Comedy. So today we will talk in detail about the setting related to the Divine Comedy in The Devil Cry.
Let's start with a brief introduction to the Divine Comedy.
The book was written during the Renaissance by Dante Alighieri, one of the Three Greats of the Renaissance. Dante combines his own personal experience and the background of the times to write such a wonderful picture of himself wandering in hell, purgatory and heaven and talking to various celebrities.
As a masterpiece of the times, you will find amazing places in any aspect of it, and we will not analyze too much about the mapping of politics and history.
The focus of today's discussion is to talk about ghost crying in conjunction with the myths and religious stories in the book.
Speaking of ghost crying, we naturally can't get around the two brothers Dante Virgil.
Dante, everyone is familiar with it, the protagonist of the game, the perennial red coat, the handsome old man, and Tracy are also popular CP.
All of these settings are traceable in the real world.
Dante Alighieri, first of all the names are exactly the same,
Second, the poet Dante and Devil Weeping Dante both had similar lovers.
Devil May Cry Dante's favorite object is named Trish,
The poet Dante's crush, whose name is Beatrice ['bi:ətris]), translates to Chinese cannot be seen, but there are similarities in English.
It is said that Dante fell in love with this woman at first sight at the age of 9, and met her on the same bridge at the age of 17, but Dante still remembered it, but in the end, like all dog blood texts, White Moonlight married someone else and died young ( "Dante meets Beatrice").
In order to commemorate his death of the white moonlight, Dante wrote a number of poems, which were integrated together called "New Life", as an autobiographical collection of poems, it is not difficult to read it, the whole book is Dante's love letter to Beatrice and rainbow fart, the poet said in the poem beatrice is "the embodiment of love". She had "indescribable tenderness, indescribable elegance," and her brilliance "added glory to heaven." She was also praised as the embodiment of the truth of heaven, and her soul flew into the sky and was reborn. Word day, as a single dog really can't read it anymore! To be honest, this is not the end of it, after blowing Dante still made a heroic statement in the book, saying that he wanted to write a legendary work.
Apparently, Dante did it, and brought the love of Contrast Arteris to the Divine Comedy.
Everyone knows how powerful Beatrice is in the Divine Comedy, and it was the Virgin Mary who sent Beatricees. (He said, "There was a noble lady in heaven who could not be explicitly mentioned in hell) And she wept because of your loss, so she sent Lucia, who was the enemy of all cruelty, and Lucia sent Beatrizi (i.e., Beatriz), and Beatrizi immediately descended to the 'Rimbot where I was, asking me to help you.'" ）
Coincidentally, there happened to be one in the Devil Cry, the lady whose original name was Mary and later changed her name to Letty. Even more coincidentally, there was also a woman named Lucia in the Devil Cry. This wave is guessed to be a coincidence? Or a tribute?
Well, Dante's ambiguous object is finished, and what is said next is to be said with Virgil. That is, the protagonists in The Devil's Cry are red and blue. And Dante and Virgil in the Divine Comedy are also red and blue.
Before the Divine Comedy, Dante's red coat, in my 150-point reading comprehension, is to show the protagonist's personality and reflect his uninhibited personal temperament. On the other hand, Virgil's blue body is to reflect his calm and steady personality. Then after reading the illustrations of the Divine Comedy, I can't help but think a little more.
As a generation of works, many people worship Dante's writings, which include many celebrities.
Such as the great painter Botticelli, many people recognize paintings but do not recognize people, the painter's representative works are "Spring" and "The Birth of Venus", other information is interested in their own Baidu.
After Reading the Divine Comedy at that time, Botticelli instantly became a die-hard fan, when the text of the "Divine Comedy" book was too dazzling, and the illustrations in it had always been unremarkable, and Botticelli, a die-hard fan painter, shook his head when he saw it!
At this moment, someone brought a pillow to the sleepy Botticelli, and an enthusiastic nobleman (Pia Francesco of the Medici family) sponsored him, so Botticelli had no worries, and began to spin and jump, he closed his eyes and flew up the brush, drawing nearly 100 illustrations in a row. The illustrations are impressive, the most impressive of which is Botticelli's portrait of Dante. Dressed in red and with an olive branch on the head, this is a very classic painting, remember this painting.
Look at the illustration of the Divine Comedy by another painter and writer. William Blake's illustrations are generally full-color, and we can see Dante and Virgil in red and blue in the paintings. These figures are very classic, and to this day we all default to dante and virgil in the divine comedy illustrations as one red and one blue, and do not change at will.
So why? Why did Dante wear a red outfit? Yeah, I also want to plan Botticelli out and ask him why, and give me a problem for this half-hanging game blogger who is not an art major
But thankfully, I found a little answer. Of course, this is my own opinion, welcome to leave a message to discuss.
Put it bluntly, the Three Masters of the Renaissance, as recognized as a great celebrity. Like wholesale in an antique market, each of them has a portrait dressed in red with an olive branch on their heads. You can play with you and even watch it.
In fact, before the invention of aniline dye in the Victorian period, dyeing clothes was a costly thing.
Different dyes come from different plants and certain organisms (bugs), so the cost is not the same, and red is the most expensive color.
In the Florentine culture of the Renaissance, there was a great deal of attention to family honor, wealth, and status. Then one of the most direct ways is in clothes, especially in formal occasions, rich people or nobles will choose red clothes to show others that I am a very high-status person. (Red, understand?) Even if there is no money to get real red, many people will beat up the swollen face and fill the fat and mix other pigments into a similar color.
Dante himself, then, was born into the nobility, and secondly, his literary status was almost divine, so it was most appropriate to paint his portraits in red to show his noble status. This is an interpretation of the direction of painting.
Then, in addition to the factor of painting profession, it may be determined by Dante's personality in the Divine Comedy. We know that the Renaissance was also a period of awakening of human consciousness. Paintings before or before the Renaissance were generally more rigid and idealistic, and the heroes were more templated or deified. One of the reasons raphael became one of the three masters of the post-Renaissance was because of the humanity in his paintings.
That humanity is also expressed in Dante in the Divine Comedy.
He is not a big protagonist, a big hero, a big hero.
He would be afraid to see Greun, but the thought of his idol Virgil watching next to him, his fear would turn into courage, and when he met Beatrice, he learned wisdom and also met love, in which the emotions were surging and extremely real, and these strong real emotions were manifested in the red clothes on his body. So Virgil – not this (devilish cry, of course), I mean the poet Dante worshipped the ancient Roman poet Virgil, as the object of Dante's worship, a guide, Dante even called him "dearest father" (?). The calm, representative blue of reason is perfectly appropriate.
And Devil Cry, my personal idea is to refer to these factors, so from beginning to end, the red and blue color tone of these two brothers has never changed.
Now that William Blake has been mentioned, let's move on to him.
William Blake, who had a relationship with the Divine Comedy, also had a lot to do with Ghost Cry. Especially Devil May Cry 5
Devil May Cry 5 begins by quoting his verse:
"And it grew both day and night, till it bore an apple bright." — William Blake's "The Poison Tree" It grows day and night, even producing an apple that is bright and bright."
At other times, the string lines are often borrowed from the writer's poems.
In addition, the two creatures of virgil splitting, one V, and one Yurizeng, are related to William Blake.
One of V's most common actions is to hold his book and put aside the god to read two verses, both punk and a little faint.
Most of these poems were written by William Blake. Moreover, the image of V is very similar to Virgil in the Divine Comedy. V escapes from the human side of the game Virgil, and the Virgil in "Divine Comedy" happens to be such an image that human beings can reach the highest realm and pursue human nature with reason and morality, and the human setting is very similar.
Yurizeng's last big boss name and setting are written by William Blake.
The image of Urizen is from William Blake's The Book of Urizen.
Yuri in the book once symbolized pure reason, and Yuri zeng in the game also symbolized Virgil's pure reason. Rationality here does not refer to the calm or non-calm of human beings, but to the meaning of excessive rationality, no emotion, and unscrupulous pursuit of throwing tiles.
Then read William Blake's The Book of Urizen again, and you will find that Virgil's division can be explained in this way.
William Blake himself created a religious system, all of which was written into this book.
It is said that in the beginning there was an Albion, and in this whole unity, two gods or things of power were split. （Zoas）
The first to split was Yurizen, who represented restraint, cruelty, and reason, and Rose, who represented inspiration and imagination, appeared as the antithesis of Yurizen.
Later, this myth was adapted, and a total of four forces were split, with Yuri zeng and the remaining three forces. (Luvah, who represents love and emotion in the East, Tharmas, who represents instinct and strength in the West, and Urthona, who represents inspiration and imagination in the north,
This plot is very similar to the plot of Virgil's family stabbing in the game, splitting the two personalities. So after listening to Xiao Nian's analysis, what do you think?