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Poets in Purgatory (2021)

August 26, 2021 By Professor Arielle Saiber


“Dante’s Purgatorio has been described as the most ‘human’ of the three parts of his Comedy, and it can also be seen as a ‘singing school’ for poets. This new complete translation by sixteen contemporary poets enters into dialogue with Dante’s text by rendering it in a variety of different Anglophone voices – American, Australian, British, Irish, Jamaican, Scottish and Singaporean. The poets in this Purgatorio adopt a range of forms, from blank verse to terza rima, and their translations are accompanied by explanatory notes, a ‘prelude’ of poems about Purgatory, and a ‘postscript’ of newly-translated medieval Italian lyrics relating to Dante and his poem.”   —Arc Publications and Amazon

Edited by Nick Havely with Bernard O’Donoghue

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2021, Poetry, Purgatorio, Purgatory, Translations

Remembering young victims of mafia violence

August 24, 2021 By Professor Arielle Saiber


This poster on the window of a school in Bologna (Via Saragozza, 9), Italy, explains that the stars are the names and ages of young children who have been recently killed in mafia violence.  The quotation (“rivedere le stelle”) is from the last verse of Inferno.

Contributed by Kate McKee (Bowdoin, ’22)

Categories: Odds & Ends, Places
Tagged with: 2021, Bologna, Children, Hell, Inferno, Italy, Mafia, Violence

Pope Francis on the 7th Centenary of Dante’s Death (2021)

August 19, 2021 By Professor Arielle Saiber


Candor Lucis Aeternae

“SPLENDOUR OF LIGHT ETERNAL, the Word of God became flesh from the Virgin Mary when, to the message of the angel, she responded: ‘Behold the handmaid of the Lord’ (cf. Lk 1:38). The liturgical feast that celebrates this ineffable mystery held a special place in the life and work of the supreme poet Dante Alighieri, a prophet of hope and a witness to the innate yearning for the infinite present in the human heart. On this Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord, I readily add my voice to the great chorus of those who honour his memory in the year marking the seventh centenary of his death. […]”    –Pope Francis

Full Apostolic Letter here

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Pope Francis

Dante’s Cerberus in comics, for International Dog Day 2021

August 19, 2021 By Professor Arielle Saiber

A show in Forlì, Italy, at the Fumettoteca Alessandro Callegati “Calle” dedicated to Dante’s Cerberus in comics.

“Una specifica ed unica ricerca fumettografica su Dante e le infinite realizzazioni fumettistiche dedicate a Cerbero. L’evento è arricchito dall’illustrazione inedita della locandina, con le suggestioni dantesche del grande autore forlivese Davide Fabbri.”    –Alessandro Callegati “Calle”

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2021, Comics, Dogs, Italy

Adam Roberts, Purgatory Mount (2021)

July 19, 2021 By Professor Arielle Saiber

“An interstellar craft is decelerating after its century-long voyage. Its destination is V538 Aurigae, a now-empty planet dominated by one gigantic megastructure, a conical mountain of such height that its summit is high above the atmosphere. The ship’s crew of five hope to discover how the long-departed builders made such a colossal thing, and why: a space elevator? a temple? a work of art? Its resemblance to the mountain of purgatory lead the crew to call this world Dante.

“In our near future, the United States is falling apart. A neurotoxin has interfered with the memory function of many of the population, leaving them reliant on their phones as makeshift memory prostheses. But life goes on. For Ottoline Barragão, a regular kid juggling school and her friends and her beehives in the back garden, things are about to get very dangerous, chased across the north-east by competing groups, each willing to do whatever it takes to get inside Ottoline’s private network and recover the secret inside.

“Purgatory Mount, Adam Roberts’s first SF novel for three years, combines wry space opera and a fast-paced thriller in equal measure. It is a novel about memory and atonement, about exploration and passion, and like all of Roberts’s novels it’s not quite like anything else.”    —Amazon

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2021, America, Journeys, Literature, Novels, Planets, Purgatorio, Purgatory, Science Fiction, Space, Thrillers, United States

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