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Kinder spot, Epifania 2018

December 29, 2019 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

During the 2018 holiday season, Kinder Italia ran this advertisement, featuring the Befana dressed as Dante, lamenting the “selva di calze infinita” at the supermarkets. Click the image below to view the full ad, available on YouTube.


Contributed by Ludovica Valentini (Florida State University, MA ’18)

Categories: Consumer Goods
Tagged with: 2018, Advertisements, Chocolate, Christmas, Holidays, Inferno, Italy, Nel Mezzo del Cammin, Selva oscura

Nine Circles of Hella-Peño

November 9, 2018 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“Long, long ago, we promised ourselves that if Jack in the Box ever launched a new Munchie Meal featuring a Hella-Peño Burger, we’d make Ms. Morrow proud (she was, after all, Taft Union High School’s finest 11th-grade English teacher). Have we lost our minds? Probably, but the result is one of the greatest things in the history of things.

With no further delay, feast your eyes on (reverb voice) The 9 Circles of Hella-Peño!” –Robyn Reynolds for Struck on Behance, August 28, 2015.

To get a larger view of the artwork, click here.

You can check out more of Robyn Reynold’s work on Behance and her online portfolio.

You can check out more of Struck’s projects on Behance and the Struck website.

Categories: Consumer Goods, Dining & Leisure, Image Mosaic
Tagged with: 2015, Advertisements, Advertising, Circles of Hell, Comics, Fast Food, Hell, Humor, Illustrations, Marketing, Restaurants

TV Ad for Olio Dante (2015)

October 8, 2016 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

olio-dante-tv-ad-2015

“Il Sommo Poeta sbarca sul web con una versione social del nuovissimo Carosello di Olio Dante.
Scenari moderni e nuove tecnologie per un Dante Alighieri che, alle prese con la spesa quotidiana ed una cassiera intraprendente, non rinuncia però al suo linguaggio aulico.”  —YouTube.com

See the post for Dante Olive Oil here.

Categories: Consumer Goods, Dining & Leisure
Tagged with: 2015, Advertisements, Advertising, Commercials, Humor, Italian, Italian Products, Italy, Marketing

Annamaria Testa, “Dante Alighieri e la pubblicità, tra pop e kitsch”

October 7, 2016 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

dante-pubblicita-kitsch-pop-acqua“Proponete a chiunque questo indovinello: ha un gran naso e uno strano copricapo rosso, è un protagonista della letteratura mondiale, è toscano. Chi è?

“Qualche spiritoso potrebbe deviare su Pinocchio che, a suo modo, coincide, ma tutti gli altri vi risponderanno Dante Alighieri o, più facilmente, Dante e basta.

[…]olivetti-dante-pubblicita-pop-kitsch

“Un motivo in apparenza marginale, ma in realtà non così irrilevante del radicarsi della figura di Dante nell’immaginario collettivo sta proprio nel suo essere sempre e perfettamente riconoscibile quando viene rappresentato. L’abito e il copricapo rossi, la corona d’alloro, il gran naso: bastano pochi tratti, e Dante è Dante. È come se tutti i pittori che lo rappresentano avessero, nei secoli, lavorato sotto lo stretto controllo di un occhiutissimo ufficio marketing, attento a impedire qualsiasi minuscola deviazione dalle caratteristiche stabilite in una ideale Bibbia del Marchio.

“Insomma: se Dante fosse un brand (e stiamo parlando di un brand con una storia  plurisecolare), potrebbe vantare una coerenza di segni che neanche la Coca Cola.” –Annamaria Testa, “Dante Alighieri e la pubblicità, tra pop e kitsch,” Nuovo e utile (2013)

Contributed by Davida Gavioli

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture, Written Word
Tagged with: 2013, Advertisements, Advertising, Dante Portraits

Telecom Company TIM produces Dante ads (2012)

December 11, 2014 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

Italian Telecom company TIM produced a series of television ads in 2012 featuring Dante, Virgil, Beatrice, and Lucifer as protagonists.

The trailer below gives a glimpse into the entire series:

For links to the full series of videos on Youtube, click here.

For more on the TIM series, see Delio De Martino, Dante & la pubblicità (Bari: Levante editori, 2013), 193-218.

Categories: Consumer Goods
Tagged with: 2012, Advertisements, Advertising, Beatrice, Charon, Humor, Inferno, Italy, Lucifer, Telecommunications, Television, Virgil

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Coggeshall, Elizabeth, and Arielle Saiber, eds. Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture. Website. Access date.

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