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Bleak Expectations, The Story So Far, BBC Radio 4 (2011)

May 19, 2014 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

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“As Volume Four opens, Pip Bin must enlist the help of his former nemesis, Mr. Gently Benevolent, to fight a new evil that is spreading terror and cake crumbs through the streets of London. Then follows a journey to the Underworld, a gunfight at the All Right I Suppose Corral, Harry Biscuit the dinosaur and his many wives, and an epic battle between good and evil on the plains of Russia.” [ . . . ]

“The fourth series takes its inspiration from sources farther and wider than ever before. Episode 1, “A Tolerable Life De-Happified,” spoofs Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — with just a hint of the Hannibal Lecter stories as Pip seeks advice from the imprisoned Mr. Benevolent. The next episode, “A Now Spoiled Life Smashed Some More,” enters a Hell not unlike that of Dante’s Inferno, while Episode 3, “A Wretched Life Made Much, Much Sadder”, takes a trip to America to echo the Gunfight at the OK Corral.”   –Richard McGinlay, “Bleak Expectations: The Story so Far,” Sci Fi Online (2011)

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2010, Hell, Humor, Inferno, Radio, United Kingdom

Dante on the Moon

February 7, 2014 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

dante-crater“Only a handful of humans have ever seen the farside of the Moon. There was a time after the Moon’s formation when the entire surface was covered by an ocean of magma; the upper layer of this magma ocean crystallized to form a global layer of anorthosite. Since that time, impacts and other geological processes have broken and churned the surface, but the Dante Crater area may possess significant amounts of these original rocks.”    —NASA, April 23, 2010

Categories: Places
Tagged with: 2010, Astronomy, Moon, NASA, Science, Space

At Midnight with Andrew Kennedy and the Dante Quartet

January 20, 2014 By Gretchen Williams '14

ian-venables-at-midnight-songs-and-chamber-music“British composer Ian Venables, born in 1955, has been described as a songwriter in the tradition of Hubert Parry, Roger Quilter, Peter Warlock, and Gerald Finzi, and the comparison is apt. They were composers of modest talents, active generations before Venables; Parry, the earliest, died in 1918, and Finzi, the latest, in 1956. Venables’ music has much in common with the conservative English pastoralism that tended to characterize their work, and an informed listener unaware of the provenance of the music recorded here might reasonably place it early in the 20th century. It is skillfully written, and Venables has clearly invested it with deep feeling, so it should appeal to fans of post-Romantic English music.” [. . .]    —AllMusic

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2010, Chamber Music, Classical

Enrico Cerni, “Dante per i manager” (2010)

July 15, 2013 By Gretchen Williams '14

enrico-cerni-dante-per-i-manager-2010     dante-per-i-manager-inferno

This how-to book, published in 2010, was written as a guide for managers and entrepreneurs to navigating the business world. Through the sections Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, Enrico Cerni creates a book-long metaphor using the famous characters and sites from Dante’s Divine Comedy. 

See Dante for Life for more information.

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2010, Business, Inferno, Italy, Non-Fiction, Paradiso, Purgatorio

Historyteachers, “The Divine Comedy” (Blondie, “Rapture”)

October 28, 2011 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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Click image above to watch video.

Contributed by Lisa Flannagan

Categories: Music, Odds & Ends
Tagged with: 2010, History, YouTube

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