A Mandelbrot Set Fractal
http://www.goshen.edu/~kevin/early/early.html (retrieved on January 24, 2007)
Sandow Birk’s Illustrations of the “Divine Comedy”
“A five year project which involved adapting the text of the entire “Divine Comedy” into contemporary slang and setting the action in contemporary urban America. The project resulted in three, limited edition books, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Each book contained more than 60 original lithographs and was published by Trillium Press in San Francisco.” —Sandow Birk
See also: Sandow Birk’s film “Dante’s Inferno” (2007)
Hell, the Musical
“The Vatican has challenged purist Roman Catholics by disclosing plans for a daring rock, punk and jazz opera version of Dante’s Divine Comedy with a soundtrack written by an avant-garde priest.
Monsignor Marco Frisina uses rock music as background for the Inferno, Gregorian chants for Purgatory and lyrical and symphonic classical and modern music for the advent of Paradise in the musical set to be staged in the autumn.
After a premier in a leading Rome theatre sponsored jointly by the Vatican and Italy’s two houses of parliament, the extravaganza will tour other major Italian and European cities ‘to bring back the attention of the widest public to Dante’s immortal poem,’ Riccardo Rossi, director general of Nova Ars, the company producing the opera, told La Repubblica newspaper.” –John Phillips, The Independent, January 3, 2007
See also : La Divina Commedia home page.
Contributed by Gloria Smith; Patrick Molloy
The Gluttony Cake
Found on Flickr
Contributed by Dien Ho
Dante’s Reconstructed Face?
“Gruppioni told Reuters in a telephone interview that the multi-disciplinary project discovered that Dante probably did have a hooked nose but it was pudgy rather than pointy and crooked rather than straight, almost as if he had been punched.” [. . .] –Philip Pullella, Reuters, January 11, 2007
Contributed by Kate Moon (Bowdoin, ’09)
