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Dante in Protest

October 22, 2008 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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(Photo by Kavi Montanaro, October 21, 2008)

Banner on Via dei Servi in Florence, Italy. Students, faculty, and parents protesting funding cuts in education and privatization of the school and university systems.
Virgil is saying to Dante, “But no, Dante!… Even Inferno is now privatized… A single fiorino [medieval unit of currency] is no longer enough…”

Categories: Places
Tagged with: 2008, Florence, Humor, Italy, Protests

Two Streets in Florence

October 22, 2008 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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(Photo by Kavi Montanaro, 2008)

Categories: Places
Tagged with: 2008, Florence, Inferno, Italy, Purgatorio, Streets

City of Florence Pardons Dante

June 22, 2008 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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“The city of Florence has issued a pardon for the poet, 700 years after it sentenced him to death for his political beliefs. Peter Popham reports on the man who turned Italian into a literary language.” [. . .]    —The Independent, June 19, 2008

Contributed by Patrick Molloy

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2008, Florence, Italy, Journalism, Politics

Schaub and Schaub, “Dante’s Path: A Practical Approach to Achieving Inner Wisdom” (2004)

September 15, 2006 By Professor Arielle Saiber

schaub-and-schaub-dantes-path-a-practical-approach-to-achieving-inner-wisdom“Dante’s Path: A Practical Approach to Achieving Inner Wisdom is primarily a self-help book. However, it is a self-help book with a difference. Authors Bonney Gulino Schaub and Richard Schaub use their perceptive, though simple reading of Dante’s Divine Comedy to guide their readers through a process that allows them to access their internal wisdom, or ‘wisdom mind,’ to achieve liberation from their fears and to realize their deeper potential.” [. . .]    —Amazon

See also Dante’s Path: Vulnerability and the Spiritual Journey (2014) and Il potere di Dante: Un cammino di illuminazione per una vita piena e felice (2021), by the same authors.

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2004, Fear, Florence, Freedom, Illumination, Italy, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Self-Help, Spirituality, Wisdom

“Hannibal” (Ridley Scott, 2001)

September 15, 2006 By Professor Arielle Saiber

hannibal-ridley-scott-2001“Hannibal is set in Florence where the notorius Hannibal Lecter is posing as a medievalist and Dante scholar. He lectures on the Divine Comedy and recites poetry from the Vita nuova, as well as attends an operatic adaptation of the Vita nuova. Apart from these explicit references to Dante, there is also a sense in which the homicidal methods he employs mirror, contrapasso like, the sins of his victims, all of whom are in some sense bad. The noble folk, Starling and a nurse, are spared, despite HL’s ample oppourtunities to kill them. It is difficult to equate any of the movie’s characters with those of the Divine Comedy, although Lector does in a sense play Virgil to Starling’s pilgrim; but in his role as avenger of evil, serial killer, HL appears more like the wrathful Old Testament God.”    –Peter Schwindt

For a compilation of references to Dante in the film, see the post on the website greatdante.net.

Contributed by Peter Schwindt

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2001, Crime, Drama, Films, Florence, Italy, Thrillers

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