Meet Dante. Not the best looking man in the world, but certainly better-looking than he has often been depicted in famous paintings.
Scientists believe this face is the closest match to the poet’s skull found in his tomb.
And for Dante scholars it has thrown up a few surprises. They always imagined him to have a long aquiline nose.
But the team from the University of Bologna, who remodelled this face, believe it was bent and crooked.
He looks as if he had been punched.
“We all had our ideas of what Dante looked like,” said Professor Giorgio Gruppioni, the anthropologist behind the project.
“But if this is right, it shows his face was quite different from what we had envisaged.”
Personally, I’m not at all surprised that Dante looks like he’d been punched. Just about every guy I know worth knowing has been punched.
UPDATE: Stentorian puts Nifong just where Dante would have.
TALENT CALL: Cartoonist to depict DA Man standing amid disaster scene, saying, “Looks like my work here is done.”
So has just about every guy who’s ever punched a guy worth knowing.
At least in my experience…
Okay, except for the ones who could run faster than … the guy they punched. Who was worth knowing.
Hopefully not “hit” though….
I think Stentorian’s just a little soft on the overall concept. You can’t put one person in four or five different bolgias and circles at the same time (viz. Bill Clinton).
Agreed, ABA, but I didn’t see him put Nifong anywhere else. Like the description of Geryon, that guy.
There’s only one of Geryon and he navigates the entirety of Hell when properly called.
Perhaps Nifong can be his flunky.