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Dante On the Bus: Piazza San Marco, Florence, Italy

April 13, 2009 By Professor Arielle Saiber

dante-on-the-bus-piazza-san-marco-florence-italy

Photo by Arielle Saiber, 2009

Categories: Places
Tagged with: 2009, Advertisements, Florence, Humor, Italy, Transportation

Piazza del Limbo, Florence, Italy

January 21, 2009 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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Contributed by Patrick Molloy

Categories: Places
Tagged with: 2009, Florence, Italy, Limbo, Piazzas

Image from Dante’s View, Death Valley, California

December 26, 2008 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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Categories: Places
Tagged with: 2008, California, Death Valley

Cgil Strike, Genova, December 2008

December 12, 2008 By Professor Arielle Saiber

cgil-strike-genovaThe sign cites (with a little alteration) from Inferno XXVI, 118-120
Considerate la vostra semenza:
fatti non foste a viver come bruti,
ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.’
Consider well the seed that gave you birth:
you were not made to live your lives as brutes,
but to be followers of worth and knowledge.
(trans. Mandelbaum)

Contributed by Virginia Jewiss (Humanities Program, Yale University)

Categories: Places
Tagged with: 2008, Genova, Humor, Italy, Politics, Protests

Dante Park, Columbus Ave and W 63rd St., NYC

October 26, 2008 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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(photo by Steven Maginnis)

“The New York branch of the Dante Alighieri Society had intended to erect a Dante monument on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Italian unification in 1912. Carlo Barsotti, editor of Il Progresso (the first Italian daily newspaper in the United States), urged subscribers to contribute towards the creation the statue. . . The monument was dedicated that year, which was the 600th anniversary of Dante’s death. . .In 1921 the south portion of Empire Park was officially renamed by the Board of Aldermen for Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321).” [. . .]    —NYC GovParks

Categories: Places
Tagged with: 1912, Nature, New York City, Parks

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