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Dante receives his COVID-19 vaccine

June 2, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

Posted to Instagram by La Repubblica and L’Espresso Settimanale illustrator Mauro Biani (@maurobia) on Dantedì (March 25) 2021. The image was also shared on La Repubblica.

Contributed by Carmelo Galati (Temple University)

Categories: Digital Media, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Beatrice, Cartoons, Comics, Covid-19, Dantedì, Humor, Illustrations, Instagram, Italy, Medicine, Social Media, Vaccines, Web Comics

Dantedì and the Italian Migrant Crisis

April 21, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

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“Among supporters for the Dante day is Italy’s minister for foreign affairs Enzo Moavero Milanesi, who recently expressed his enthusiasm for the project in an article penned for Corriere. ‘Dante is fully and pervasively part of the genetic code of what it is to be Italian,’ Moavero Milanesi wrote. Given that Dante’s poem is heavily Catholic, and shows Prophet Mohammed split in half by a demon for ‘sowing schism,’ conflating Dante with modern Italian culture reflects ideas that are outdated – and nationalistic.

“This uncritical celebration of the past diverts attention from the dark conditions on Italy’s shores. While Dante’s pilgrim makes an arduous but enlightening journey towards paradise in order to escape the inferno, Moavero Milanesi and Salvini would prefer that the migrants remain in limbo. Rather than supporting their assimilation, Moavero Milanesi has laid out a plan that advises migrants against attempting the crossing. [. . .]   –Emma Leech, “A campaign to commemorate Dante distracts from a crisis on Italy’s coastline,” The New Statesman (July 30, 2019)

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2019, Crisis, Dantedì, Immigration, Italian, Italian Politics, Italy, Lampedusa, Migration, National Identity, Politics

Dantedìnk 2021

April 3, 2021 By Professor Arielle Saiber

Dante ritratto da Emanuele Luzzati (2004)

“Una serie di link per non perdersi nella selva oscura di eventi dedicati al Sommo Vate nel 700esimo anno dalla sua morte.”    –Cristiana Solinas, Paroledavendere, March 26, 2021

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Dantedì

Uffizi Galleries’ TikTok video featuring Dante and Virgil

March 27, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“This TikTok video by the Uffizi Galleries uses works by Emilio Demi and Carlo Albacini and the song ‘Gotta Go My Own Way’ from Disney’s hit 2007 movie High School Musical 2. It plays on the moment Virgil leaves Dante in Purgatorio.”   –Contributor Kate McKee

The TikTok video was posted on Dantedì (March 25) 2021 in honor of the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death.

Contributed by Kate McKee (Bowdoin College ’22)

Categories: Digital Media, Music
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Dantedì, Disney, Florence, Italy, Musicals, Pop Music, Purgatorio, Purgatory, Social Media, TikTok, Uffizi, Videos, Virgil

«Noi leggiavamo. . .»: Visual re-mediations of Canto 5 in the journal Arabeschi

March 25, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

In honor of Dantedì (March 25) 2021, the journal Arabeschi published a special issue dedicated to the visual re-mediations of the figures of Paolo and Francesca in Inferno 5. With an introduction by Gaetano Lalomia and Giovanna Rizzarelli, and featuring essays and virtual exhibits by Marcello Ciccuto, Laura Pasquini, and others, the special issue covers in depth the rich history of iconographic reception, across various visual media, of the story of Dante’s star-crossed lovers in the 20th and 21st centuries. At right is a screenshot of selected contributions to the issue.

Read the full issue (with image gallery) here.

Read the introduction by Lalomia and Rizzarelli here.

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture, Written Word
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Canto 5, Comics, Dantedì, Illustrations, Italy, Literary Criticism, Manga, Paintings, Paolo and Francesca

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