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Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum’s Café G

October 8, 2013 By Gretchen Williams '14

cafe-g-isabella-stuart-gardner-museumAn introductory note on the menu of the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum’s Café G:

“Isabella Stuart Gardner’s love for the medieval extended to literature as well as to art, and she was particularly devoted to the great Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). Gardner was a member of the Dante Society and collected several rare copies of the Divine Comedy, including a manuscript of the poem written within a century of the author’s death. She stored these precious books alongside a death mask of the poet in the ‘Dante Case’ in the museum’s Long Gallery. [. . .] We hope you enjoy this special menu, inspired by Inferno. It features fiery hot peppers in a variety of different forms.”    —Café G Menu (click to see full menu)

Contributed by Nancy Vickers

Categories: Dining & Leisure
Tagged with: 2013, Boston, Collections, Inferno, Massachusetts, Restaurants

Dante Restaurant, Boston

June 2, 2011 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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Dante Restaurant, Boston, MA

Contributed by Krista Gladman (Bowdoin, ’11)

Categories: Dining & Leisure
Tagged with: 2008, Boston, Massachusetts, Restaurants

Dante Alighieri Elementary School, Boston

December 3, 2009 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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See more at Boston Public Schools.

Contributed by Elizabeth Baskerville

Categories: Places
Tagged with: 2009, Boston, Elementary Schools, Massachusetts

Matthew Pearl, “The Dante Club” (2003)

September 15, 2006 By Professor Arielle Saiber

matthew-pearl-the-dante-club-2003“1865 Boston, a small group of literary geniuses puts the finishing touches on America’s first translation of The Divine Comedy and prepares to unveil the remarkable visions of Dante to the New World. The powerful old guard of Harvard College wants to keep Dante out–believing that the infiltration of such foreign superstitions onto our bookshelves would prove as corrupting as the foreign immigrants invading Boston harbor. The members of the Dante Club–poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell and publisher J. T. Fields –endure the intimidation of their fellow Boston Brahmins for a sacred literary cause, an endeavor that has sustained Longfellow in the hellish aftermath of his wife’s tragic death by fire.”    —Matthew Pearl

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2003, Boston, Censorship, Crime Thrillers, Fiction, History, Horror, Massachusetts, Novels, Universities

Neocommedia: Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise (2002)

September 15, 2006 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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“An immersive adaptation of Dante’s Divine Comedy exploring the modern deity of Information.”    —iKatun

“iKatun’s Paradise is based on Dante’s Paradise from the Divine Comedy, however, this Paradise is not about perfect morality but about perfect information. iKatun’s Paradise alludes to instant availability and perfect knowledge; a single data point of infinite density; the faultless model of information to which all media systems aspire; the space where entropy does not exist.”    —iKatun

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2002, Boston, Inferno, Installation Art, Massachusetts, Paradise, Purgatory, Technology

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