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Convict-Actors Recite Dante

November 27, 2021 By Hannah Raisner, FSU '25

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“Three long-term convicts turned actors who appeared in the Taviani brothers’ prison-set Caesar Must Die Shakespearian film drama are to get out of jail for three hours to recite Dante’s Inferno at a Rome university symposium Thursday marking the 700th anniversary of the Supreme Poet’s death.

“Filippo, Giovanni and Francesco, serving lengthy terms for criminal association in the mafia wing of Rebibbia Prison, will be special guests at the event organized by the pontifical Dante commission.

“The three men said they hoped the three hours would be long enough for them to ‘see the stars again’ like Dante does when he emerges from the pit of Hell.”    –ANSA, November 23, 2021

Categories: Performing Arts, Places
Tagged with: 700th anniversary, Hell, Inferno, Italy, Live Performances, Mafia, Paolo and Francesca, Performance Art, Prisons, Rome, Stars, Ugolino, Ulysses, Universities

Comics on display in honor of International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

November 24, 2021 By Professor Arielle Saiber


“Un nuovo evento: La Fumettoteca Regionale scende in campo per il ‘International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women’ con ‘Beatrice Donna Dantesca’ L’immancabile sensibilizzazione alla ‘Giornata Internazionale per l’Eliminazione della Violenza contro le Donne’ ma non per un solo giorno! e tanti altri passati e in arrivo…”

Contributed by GianLuca Umiliacchi

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture, Written Word
Tagged with: 2021, Beatrice, Comics, Italy, Violence Against Women, Women

Hexperos, “Midway Upon the Journey of Our Life” (2020)

November 14, 2021 By Sephora Affa, FSU '24

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Hexperos’ 2020 release, “Midway Upon the Journey of Our Life” draws inspiration from Canto I of the Inferno.

“‘Midway upon the journey of our life, we could found ourselves within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost.’ Never there was a sentence more apt to describe the disturbance we all feel at some point of our lives, when we feel lost, empty and we don’t know if the road that we have chosen, the journey of life undertaken, is actually the right one for us.

“The songs are stories of life, of sharing as well as in the Divine Comedy. As a matter of fact, who is in pain, often makes new encounters, shares their stories, through sharing and listening to the experiences of others we grow, we find a light in the darkness.” [. . .]    — Alessandra Santovito, Hexperos

Listen to the song here.

Learn more about Hexperos on their website, here.

Album art by Nicolás Menay

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2020, Album Art, Albums, Dark Wood, Emotions, Illustrations, Italy, Journeys, Music, Musical Instruments, Nel Mezzo del Cammin, Selva oscura, Songs, Suffering, Voice

“Abito in poliestere dipinto a mano per i 700 anni dalla morte di Dante”

November 14, 2021 By Sephora Affa, FSU '24

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“Vercelli, Istituto professionale Lombardi: un abito realizzato in occasione dei 700 anni dalla morte di Dante Alighieri un abito. Il modello è stato esposto in occasione della conferenza promossa dagli Amici dei Musei di Vercelli, nella cornice del Piccolo Studio,  nel Chiostro di Sant’Andrea, in cui dottor Claudio Martignon ha trattato il Canto X dell’Inferno, quello in cui il sommo poeta incontra il suo concittadino Farinata degli Uberti. L’abito è stato realizzato per omaggiare il padre della lingua italiana: è statoconfezionato nell’anno scolastico 2020/21, mentre le scuole affrontavano la sfida della didattica a distanza. I laboratori, tuttavia, sono rimasti aperti il più possibile e così la classe 5a Progettazioni tessili sartoriali, guidata dalla professoressa Bestetti con il sempre prezioso aiuto di Angela Dragna, ha lavorato al vestito in poliestere bianco dalla linea leggermente svasata. La gonna presenta delle profonde pieghe baciate sia davanti che dietro. La sua caratteristica principale sta nell’essere interamente dipinto a mano con immagini ispirate alle illustrazioni della Divina Commedia fatte dall’artista inglese John Flaxman che ritraggono Dante e Beatrice. Le maniche dell’abito sono a campana rettangolare, con strisce in tessuto dipinte recanti scritte tratte da alcuni versi della Commedia. Il collo è ispirato alle gorgere ma realizzato in tulle pieghettato. Il bellissimo lavoro ad opera delle studentesse del Lombardi ha potuto essere ammirato anche dai vercellesi.”    —La Sesia, November 8, 2021

Contributed by Lorenzo Coveri 

Categories: Consumer Goods, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Clothing, Fashion, Italy, John Flaxman, Student Projects, Vercelli

Valley of the Painted Stones Murals in Sicily, Silvio Benedetto (1992)

November 10, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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“La Valle Delle Pietre Dipinte, or the Valley of Painted Stones (also known as the Park of the Divine Comedy), is a series of 110 painted marble slabs that depict events and people from Dante’s Divine Comedy. Artist and sculptor Silvio Benedetto began this endeavor in 1992. Benedetto, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1938, moved to Italy in 1964 and completed other well-known works there, such as the murals for Cinque Terre National Park. He has been called the ‘last of the great mural artists.’

“La Valle delle Pietre Dipinte is located in Campobello di Licata, Sicily. The park is a physical experience as well as an artistic one. Visitors walk through it, going from Hell to Purgatory to Paradise. The journey begins with a downward path into Hell, which features such recognized figures as La Lupa, Beatrice, Francesca and Paolo, and Ulysses. The viewer goes up from Hell to Purgatory, finally ascending the hill to Paradise, where a mural of the Virgin Mary can be seen. The last mural of the series says, ‘E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle’ or ‘And then we went out to see the stars.'”    –Contributor Abigail Williams

See also a collection of photographs of the murals at the Valley of Painted Stones here.

For more information about Campobello di Licata and the Valley of Painted Stones, click here.

Contributed by Abigail Williams (University of Arkansas, ’22)

Categories: Places, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 1992, Argentinian Artists, Beatrice, Campobello di Licata, Hell, Italy, Murals, Paolo and Francesca, Paradise, Purgatory, Sicily, Ulysses, Visual Arts

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