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Hell’s Ninth Circle (2017 TV mini-series)

January 31, 2021 By Laura Chatellier, FSU '23

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“A dark comedy about a disgraced cop who goes undercover to bust a mob boss.”    —IMDb, 2017.

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2017, Circles of Hell, Ninth Circle, Television

Call Me By Your Name (2017)

December 11, 2020 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“In [Luca Guadagnino’s] movie Call Me By Your Name (2017), during the scene where Elio’s parents are sunbathing in Italy, Elio’s father is reading a book with a marking on the spine that says La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri.”   –Contributor Alex Lee

Contributed by Robert Alex Lee (Florida State University ’21)

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2017, Films, Italy, Reading

Marica Mentier, “The History of Happiness,” The Science of Emotions

November 19, 2020 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“[Marica] Mentier recounts how she encountered Dante’s Commedia in college and cites the famous valedictory by Virgil in Purg. 27: ‘Take henceforth your pleasure as your guide.’ She continues, ‘Over the course of his journey, he has acquired the wisdom to know where true happiness lies, and now his heart will unerringly guide him there.’ (p.17)” –Contributor Alan R. Perry

Contributed by Alan R. Perry (Gettysburg College)

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2017, Emotions, Happiness, Magazines, Pleasure, Virgil

Humanities Magazine’s “What’s the Best Way to Read the Divine Comedy If You Don’t Know Italian?”

November 12, 2020 By Laura Chatellier, FSU '23

humanities-magazine-tour-of-translation-2020-wikimedia“In comparing these two translations, the Sayers version seems to win out in two ways—it matches Dante in form and, to a degree, in content. By starting with ‘Midway this way of life we’re bound upon,’ she remains faithful to the starting point, ‘nel mezzo,’ while Mandelbaum pushes this to the middle of the first line. Sayers adds ‘bound upon’ (not, strictly speaking, in the original), which allows her to make the rhyme in the third line with ‘gone.’ But Mandelbaum is more faithful to the directness of the original, not stretching the meaning or introducing words to make the rhyme. His metered language often seems more natural than Sayers’ and more in keeping with the diction of Dante, which favored solid vocabulary and straight-forward syntax. Mandelbaum, will, in fact, interject rhyme if it’s not forced (as he does with way and stray). In spite of first impressions favoring Sayers, most readers who choose to make the entire journey from inferno to purgatory and finally paradise ultimately find the Mandelbaum translation more satisfying.” [. . .]    –Steve Moyer, Humanities: The Magazine Of The National Endowment For The Humanities, 2017

 

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2017, Literary Criticism, Literature, Longfellow, Nel Mezzo del Cammin, Poetry, Reviews, Translations

G-Dragon, “Divina Commedia” (2017)

November 5, 2020 By Laura Chatellier, FSU '23

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“The end of hardship Divina Commedia…”

Click on the image above to access the lyric music video, released in 2017, on Youtube.

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2017, 2020, Divine Comedy, K-Pop, Music Videos, South Korea

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