 James Joyce, in his 1922 "Ulysses", gives his hero Bloom a lunch of "a glass of Burgundy and a Gorgonzola sandwich".In his 1972 book "Ulysses on the Liffey", critic and Joyce scholar Richard Ellmann suggests that "Besides serving as a parable that life breeds corruption, Gorgonzola is probably chosen also because of Dante's adventures with the Gorgon in the "Inferno IX".Bloom masters the monster by digesting her."