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Paolo & Francesca paintings by Derek Overfield (2020)

November 25, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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“Immortalized by Dante’s Inferno and Rodin’s, The Kiss, the historical couple of Paolo and Francesca have moved audiences for over 700 years. The young couple fell in love while reading the romance of Lancelot and Guinevere, but their affair was cut short in tragedy. This collection contains 3 paintings, the first of the couple embracing. The second and third capture a moment – perhaps before their embrace, perhaps following their discovery. Twelve preparatory drawings in charcoal also accompany the painting of the embracing couple.”     –from the portfolio of Derek Overfield

For more information about Derek Overfield and their work, view their portfolio here.

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: American Art, American Painting, Fairmont, Inferno, Inferno 5, Paintings, Paolo and Francesca, United States, Visual Arts, West Virginia

Inferno 5 Website

November 2, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

inferno-5-website-screenshot“In occasione del settecentenario della scomparsa di Dante Alighieri, il Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale vi invita ad esplorare il Canto V dell’Inferno della Divina Commedia. Ascoltate le terzine, scoprite i personaggi che hanno ispirato il Sommo Poeta e l’influenza della vicenda di Paolo e Francesca sugli autori di tutto il mondo.”    –Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, Inferno 5 (retrieved October 29, 2021)

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Tagged with: 700th anniversary, Guides, Inferno, Inferno 5, Italian, Italy, Paolo and Francesca, Readings, Websites, World Languages

Leonard Kress, “That Day We Read No More” (2019)

May 4, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

A vengeful sheering Great Lakes wind,
uprooting trees, flinging roof shingles—
split stumps and flayed branches. A whole dangle
of modifiers. Infinitives finding
syntax amid the wreckage. I can almost
make out the spoken scrawl, part malignant rant,
and part avowal, part warning and part advance
directive. Yet what I hear most is boast

when winds subside: Love led me to betray,
and the agony that betrayal once begot
afflicts me now, like you, who’ll stay
to hear my tale. You, like me, who sought
to authorize illicit love—you’re doomed
like some obsessive-compulsive, forever caught

in the act of betrayal. Forever damned.
Give me details, I demand, hoping
our stories do not match. There’s no stopping,
she says—Francesca, mother, who charmed
Paolo with her quizzing glance. I asked
my would-be lover to admit out loud
with certain sighs he wanted me. He held
his breath long as he could. And then, unmasked,

indifference and restraint abandoned, distance
obliterated—we agreed to read
together the tale of Lancelot’s romance
with his King’s wife Guinevere, and the bed
in which they found delight. That pleasure is
now pain—in inverse proportion to the deed.

Leonard Kress’s poem “That Day We Read No More,” a rewriting of Inferno 5, was published in The Orpheus Complex by Main Street Rag Press in 2009. It is available for purchase on the Main Street Rag website. The poem was featured in NonBinary Review #19, a 2019 collection of poems dedicated to Dante’s Inferno, available from Zoetic Press. Many thanks to the author for permission to publish the poem on Dante Today.

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2009, 2019, Betrayal, Inferno, Inferno 5, Lancelot and Guinevere, Love, Lust, Paolo and Francesca, Poems, Poetry, United States

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