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Johnny Depp to Play Protagonist in Nick Tosches’ Novel “In the Hand of Dante” (2002)

January 21, 2009 By Professor Arielle Saiber

johnny-depp-to-play-protagonist-in-the-hand-of-dante-2002“Johnny Depp’s production company Infinitum Nihil has acquired screen rights to the Nick Tosches novel ‘In the Hand of Dante.’ The novel will be developed as a potential star vehicle for Depp. . .
Book revolves around Dante’s masterwork “The Divine Comedy,” and tells parallel storylines involving Dante in 14th-century Italy as he tries to complete the work, and a contemporary storyline involving Tosches, who is asked to authenticate what might be Dante’s original manuscript. Depp would play Tosches. The novel was published in 2002.” [. . .]    –Michael Fleming, Variety, December 2, 2008

See Also: MTVnews update on the film’s progress as of July 2011.

Contributed by Patrick Molloy

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2002, 2008, 2011, Films, Novels

“Where Sweatshops Are a Dream”

January 15, 2009 By Professor Arielle Saiber

where-sweatshops-are-a-dream“This is a Dante-like vision of hell. It’s a mountain of festering refuse, a half-hour hike across, emitting clouds of smoke from subterranean fires.” [in reference to a large garbage dump in Phnom Penh, Cambodia] [. . .]    –Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times, January 14, 2008

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2008, Cambodia, Health, Hell, Journalism, Phnom Penh, Waste

Image from Dante’s View, Death Valley, California

December 26, 2008 By Professor Arielle Saiber

image-from-dantes-view-death-valley-california

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

Richard Wilbur, “Terza Rima”

December 5, 2008 By Professor Arielle Saiber

richard-wilbur-terza-rima-the-new-yorker-2008

Found at The New Yorker.

Contributed by Aisha Woodward (Bowdoin, ’08)

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2008, Hell, Journalism, Paradise, Poetry

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