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Cgil Strike, Genova, December 2008

December 12, 2008 By Professor Arielle Saiber

cgil-strike-genovaThe sign cites (with a little alteration) from Inferno XXVI, 118-120
Considerate la vostra semenza:
fatti non foste a viver come bruti,
ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.’
Consider well the seed that gave you birth:
you were not made to live your lives as brutes,
but to be followers of worth and knowledge.
(trans. Mandelbaum)

Contributed by Virginia Jewiss (Humanities Program, Yale University)

Categories: Places
Tagged with: 2008, Genova, Humor, Italy, Politics, Protests

Francesco Bertolini, Giuseppe De Liguoro, and Adolfo Padovan, “L’Inferno” (1911)

December 5, 2008 By Professor Arielle Saiber

francesco-bertolini-giuseppe-de-liguoro-and-adolf-padovan-linferno-1911Watch YouTube video clips of Inferno (1911) and Satan Eating Human (1911).

“The Italian epic came of age with Giuseppe de Liguoro’s imaginative silent version of the Inferno, loosely adapted from Dante and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré. L’Inferno was first screened in Naples in the Teatro Mercadante 10 March 1911. The film took over three years to make involving more than 150 people and was the first full length Italian feature film ever made. It’s success was not confined to Italy it was an international hit taking more than $2 million in the United States alone.
Tangerine Dream have composed the soundtrack based on their opera of Dante’s Inferno producing a soundtrack truly worthy of their position as one of the top film music composers in the world.”    —L’inferno.com

Contributed by J. Patrick Brown (Bowdoin, ’09)

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 1911, Films, Gustave Doré, Inferno, Italy, Naples

Graffiti in Firenze

November 1, 2008 By Professor Arielle Saiber

graffiti-in-firenze
Photo by Kavi Montanaro, 2008

Categories: Image Mosaic, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2008, Florence, Graffiti, Italy

Dante in Protest

October 22, 2008 By Professor Arielle Saiber

dante-in-protest
(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

two-streets-in-florence
(Photo by Kavi Montanaro, 2008)

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

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