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“Mafia boss reads Dante Alighieri in prison”

January 28, 2008 By Professor Arielle Saiber

mafia-boss-reads-dante-alighieri-in-prison“Bernardo Provenzano, the former Godfather of the Sicilian Mafia who is serving life in prison, is spending his time reading Dante and writing to a pen pal. . . ‘I have read the Inferno,’ he wrote. ‘And especially where it says that on life’s journey, I found myself in dark woods, the right road lost.’ The former boss of all the bosses–who ordered the assassination of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, a pair of anti-Mafia investigators–told Bonavota that ‘when reason and force collide, force wins and reason is lacking.'” [. . .]    –Malcolm Moore, The Telegraph, January 28, 2008

Contributed by Aisha Woodward (Bowdoin, ’08)

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2008, Crime, Inferno, Italy, Journalism, Mafia, Prisons, Sicily

Vladimir Martynov, “Vita Nuova” Opera

January 27, 2008 By Professor Arielle Saiber

vladimir-martynov-vita-nuova-opera “Next season, Mr. Jurowski will return to Lincoln Center with the London Philharmonic, bearing Mozart, Mahler, Strauss, a full evening of Rachmaninoff and the American premiere of Vladimir Martynov’s opera Vita Nuova, after Dante’s neo-Platonic treatise on love in verse and prose.”    –Matthew Gurewitsch, New York Times, January 27, 2008 (retrieved January 27, 2008)

See also: “Love Poems With Musical Annotation” by Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times, March 1, 2009

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2008, New York City, Operas, Russia, Vita Nuova

Writer Ethan Coen and Director Neil Pepe, “Almost an Evening” (2008)

January 23, 2008 By Professor Arielle Saiber

ethan-coen-and-neil-pepe-almost-an-evening-2008

“Like many of the Coen brothers’ films, much of ‘Almost an Evening,’ nimbly directed by Neil Pepe, is touched by the premise that hell lurks right under the surface of, or just around the corner from, everyday life. Make that Hell, with a capital H, the same piece of real estate charted by Dante and Milton.” [. . .]    –Ben Brantley, The New York Times, January 23, 2008

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2008, New York City, Theater

David Owen, “The Afterlife: Cutting Back”

January 4, 2008 By Professor Arielle Saiber

david-owen-the-afterlife-cutting-back“. . .Keeping murderers and warmakers submerged in boiling blood, for example, is manageable in the near term but cannot be sustained for all eternity, since the energy expenditure required to heat blood forever will eventually constrain even Our ability to undertake other desirable projects, such as the continuance of the universe as a whole. We face a similar energy crisis with regard to evil counsellors, whom We have promised to incinerate everlastingly; with regard to blasphemers, sodomites, usurers, and doers of violence against Us, who must be tortured without end on heated sand; and with regard to Count Ugolino, Archbishop Ruggieri, and others who are permanently frozen in ice. The avaricious could conceivably be put to work ceaselessly twisting the heads of diviners and fortune-tellers, or keeping flatterers covered with filth, or cladding hypocrites in leaden mantles, but not even We can unwrite the terms of Our own first law of thermodynamics.” [. . .]    –David Owen, The New Yorker, January 7, 2008

Contributed by Patrick Molloy

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2008, Afterlife, Journalism, Ugolino

“Putting Your Best Cyberface Forward”

January 4, 2008 By Professor Arielle Saiber

stephanie-rosenbloom-putting-your-best-cyberface-forward

“In general, scholars do not think of impression management as an intentionally deceptive or nefarious practice. It is more like social lubrication without a drink in your hand. Those studying it online have found that when people misrepresent themselves, it is often because they are attempting to express an idealized or future version of themselves–someone who is thinner or has actually finished Dante’s Inferno.” [. . .]    –Stephanie Rosenbloom, The New York Times, January 3, 2008

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2008, Humor, Inferno, Internet, Journalism, Social Media

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