“Io so che l’intenzion lor fu onesta!” l’“Inferno” in “topolino”

Highlighting the importance of Italian comics in the years after the Second World War, this essay focuses on the graphic, linguistic, and figurative adaptations of Dante’s Inferno in the pages of the Italian comic par excellence, “Topolino” (Mickey Mouse). As we will see, not only did Disney’s cartoonists quote themes, sentences and images from the original, but they also provided already existing interpretations, thus making Dante’s text something new.