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“San Valentino, cade un taboo: Dante e Beatrice si baciano”

April 8, 2022 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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“Dopo oltre 700 anni dalla nascita del loro amore, Dante e Beatrice cederanno alla tentazione e si lasceranno travolgere dalla passione facendo cadere tutti i taboo del dolce stilnovo. Un bacio, vero, per festeggiare tutti gli innamorati e promuovere la cultura. E per farlo hanno scelto il week end di San Valentino e due location d’eccezione: le grotte dell’Angelo di Pertosa (SA), le uniche in Europa a essere attraversate da un fiume navigabile, e la Certosa di San Lorenzo Padula (SA), complesso monastico tra i più grandi del vecchio continente, entrambe nominate patrimonio dell’Umanità dall’UNESCO, dove da anni vanno in scena i celebri spettacoli L’Inferno e Il Purgatorio di Dante.

“‘E’ un omaggio a tutti gli innamorati attraverso una coppia simbolo della letteratura italiana – dichiara Domenico Maria Corrado, regista e ideatore degli spettacoli –  Un’iniziativa per certi versi provocatoria, ma che in realtà vuole rendere più accattivante la cultura celebrando l’amore. Dai tempi di Dante ad oggi molte cose sono mutate e quindi anche la cultura deve sperimentare nuove strade.'” [. . .]    —Italia Chiama Italia.It, February 7, 2013 (retrieved April 8, 2022)

Categories: Performing Arts, Places
Tagged with: 2013, Beatrice, Dante, Inferno, Italy, Kiss, Love, Paradiso, Performances, Purgatorio, Valentine's Day

Divinity and damnation — why Dante still matters Article, Financial Times (2021)

March 30, 2022 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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“‘Onorate l’altissimo poeta!’ — ‘Honour the supreme poet!’ In Dante’s Divine Comedy, these words are said of Virgil, Dante’s guide through Hell and Purgatory. Now, 700 years after Dante’s death on September 14, 1321, it seems more right than ever to apply the words to Dante himself.

“Dante’s reputation has never stood higher. He has been revered by an extraordinary number of the greatest poets and writers of the past hundred years — Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Beckett, Borges, Montale, and the great Armenian poet Yeghishe Charents, to name only a few.” [. . .]    –Robert Chandler, Financial Times, September 28, 2021 (retrieved March 30, 2022)

Chandler’s article, published originally in the British newspaper Financial Times, goes on to review three Dante-related books: Dante by Alessandro Barbero, a translation of Purgatorio by D.M. Black, and Visions of Heaven by Martin Kemp. View our posts for each of these by clicking their respective links. The full text of the article is available here.

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Articles, Dante, Dante's Biography, Newspapers, Purgatorio, Reviews, United Kingdom

Succession Season 3, Episode 6 – “What It Takes” (2021)

December 4, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

Succession-What-It-Takes-40th-Birthday-Party-ThemeIn Episode 6 of Season 3 of the HBO television series Succession, Kendall Roy describes the planned theme of his upcoming 40th birthday: “ End Times: Weimar meets Carthage meets Dante meets AI and antibiotic-resistant superbugs.”

Succession has been featured multiple times on our website: see another reference from Season 1 here and a promotional poster citing here.

Categories: Digital Media, Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2021, American Television, Black Comedy, Dante, Drama, HBO, Satire, Televison, United States

Wandering Star Short Film, dir. Sai Kelly (2015)

November 10, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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“Wandering Star is a short film by filmmaker Sai Kelly. The short film begins with Dante’s opening lines from Inferno, Canto 1 but with a notable difference in that the words “our life” are replaced in the film with “my life.” The protagonist of the film, Dante, is clearly in distress and confused, much like the poet Dante when he appears in the dark wood. As Kelly’s Dante struggles with his confusion, a payphone nearby rings. On answering the payphone, we, along with the protagonist are introduced to a voice who later is called Virgil. Virgil shows the protagonist the most painful and darkest parts of the city where Dante lives. The people suffering “see no way out” mimicking the way in which there is no escape for the sinners of the Inferno. In the end, Dante faints, calls out to Virgil who tells him to run, and wakes up back on the streets of his city a changed person.”    –Contributor Cameron Gunter

A full video of Wandering Star and more information about Sai Kelly can be found here.

Contributed by Cameron Gunter (University of Arkansas, ’22)

Categories: Digital Media, Performing Arts
Tagged with: Canto 1, Dante, Inferno, Movies, Nel Mezzo del Cammin, Short Films, United Kingdom, Virgil

Escape from Paradise “Found” Letter From Dante’s Beatrice to Petrarch’s Laura, Sante Matteo (2021)

November 10, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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This “found” letter drafted by Sante Matteo recounts the story of Beatrice Portinari’s faked death in Florence and reestablishment as a different woman in Venice. The letter acts as Beatrice’s advice to Petrarch’s muse Laura on “how to deal with the consequences of being made the object of love poetry” (Contributor Sante Matteo). Throughout the text, various references are made to Dante, the Divine Comedy, and other poetic and literary works written by Dante.

The following is an excerpt from the letter explaining Beatrice’s identity:

“Before escaping from Florence, I was Beatrice Portinari. Yes, the Beatrice made famous by Dante Alighieri.  I’m told that his poetry is well known in Avignon because of the community of Florentine expatriates who live there. . . If you do know the Commedia, you will know me as Dante’s guide from Purgatorio through Paradiso.” [. . .]    –Sante Matteo, Twelve Winters Journal

For the full content of the letter, visit Twelve Winters journal here.

Contributed by Sante Matteo

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2021, Beatrice, Dante, Fiction, Letters, Narrative, Petrarch

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