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The Sopranos, Season Six, Join the Club (2006)

October 19, 2021 By Ezra Berman '23

“In ‘Join the Club’ (2006), Tony has a recurring coma-dream in which he checks into Room 728 (i.e., level seven) at the Omni Hotel in Costa Mesa, using the identity of non-mafia civilian Kevin Finnerty. When the hotel elevator is out of commission, Tony descends a red staircase, slips, and falls to level five. Tony’s surgeon, Dr. Plepler, tells Tony’s wife, sisters and daughter they’re lucky Tony’s at a Level 1 trauma center. (Level one is Limbo[42]).”    —Wikipedia

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2006, Fifth Circle, Hell, Inferno, Limbo, Seventh Circle, Television

The Tenth Stage, The Tenth Stage (2006)

October 19, 2021 By Ezra Berman '23

“Australian goth-electro band the Tenth Stage has a self-titled track (2006) that describes the singer’s descent past the nine stages of Dante’s poem to a 10th stage of Hell.”    —Wikipedia

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2006, Australia, Circles of Hell, Electronic, Goth, Hell, Inferno, Tenth Circle

Detective Dante Comics (2005-2007)

March 27, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“The comic book series Detective Dante is loosely based on the Divine Comedy. Not only is the protagonist named Dante, but the whole series is divided into three parts called Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. The first issues in particular contain many references and textual quotations of Dante’s poem.”   –Contributor Alessio Aletta

The series was created by Lorenzo Baroli and Roberto Recchioni. It was published by Eura Editoriale from 2005-2007.

See the gallery of cover images on the Grand Comics Database.

Contributed by Alessio Aletta (University of Toronto)

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture, Written Word
Tagged with: 2005, 2006, 2007, Comics, Detective Stories, Inferno, Italian, Italy, Paradiso, Purgatorio

Heidi Wastweet’s Dante Medal (2006)

March 4, 2021 By Professor Arielle Saiber

Dante Inventing Beatrice 10″ x 13″ Cast Bronze Limited Edition of 20

“I challenge this romantic notion of love. I see this Beatrice we know as an invention of Dante’s imagination. Here Dante, near death, is remembering the young beautiful Beatrice as he conjured her, never even having had an intimate conversation or ever having touched her. Did he regret having constrained himself by other peoples’ standards? Or did it bring him peace to keep her safely, purely, in his head? Did she know? Did she love him back? As he lay dying he imagines she is on the other side waiting to greet him. His isolated hand reaches out longingly but touches her only on the very pages that he wrote.”   —Heidi Wastweet

Heidi Wastweet is a leading American Medallist and sculptor working in the San Francisco Bay area. In conjunction with a wide variety of private mints she has produced over 1000 coins, medals, and tokens since 1987. […]”.
—American Medallic Sculpture Association

Contributed by Ying Zheng

Categories: Odds & Ends
Tagged with: 2006, Beatrice, Dante Portraits, Medals, Sculptures

REVIEWED: Dante’s Inferno: A Verse Translation by Sean O’Brien

January 18, 2021 By Jasmine George, FSU '24

“At least 50 English translations of The Inferno — the first volume of Dante’s three-part epic — have appeared in the 20th century alone. And now we have another, by the Yorkshire-born poet Sean O’Brien. O’Brien’s is a brave undertaking, given the scores of august literary figures who have attempted the task in previous centuries, often obscuring Dante’s brilliance in the process.

“O’Brien’s Inferno is touted by the publishers as ‘the most fluent, grippingly readable English version of Dante yet’.”   –Ian Thomson, The Spectator, 2006

Read the full review here.

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2006, Book Review, Inferno, Literary Criticism, Literature, Translations

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