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“Speciale San Valentino: innamoratevi a Gradara rileggendo la storia di Paolo e Francesca”

March 2, 2021 By Laura Chatellier, FSU '23

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“San Valentino è un’occasione speciale e eccezionalmente per le coppie di innamorati che verranno a pranzo qui abbiamo elaborato un menù a base di pesce – dice Andrea Chiarion (Ristorante Il Bacio di Gradara) – ma per tutti gli innamorati, ogni sabato abbiamo preparato la proposta “Smart box,” ovvero una cena per due da asporto, con vino e dolce dedicati a chi si ama.

“Gradara è il luogo dell’amore celebrato e proibito. Ogni anno la rocca è meta di tantissimi visitatori. Cambiano magari i partner, ma a quella magia non si rinuncia. La ProLoco organizza eventi, momenti e occasioni per le coppie nella rassegna “Gradara d’Amare.”  E anche se il Covid ha scombinato le regole, il borgo si colora di rosso passione anche in questo anno difficile con gli itinerari guidati (su prenotazione)in cui partecipare a una “passeggiata raccontata” nel borgo, in compagnia di dame, cavalieri e di un simpatico giullare, poi ristoranti, negozi, bar aperti. Passato e presente si incontrano in questo borgo, tra questi scorci, a testimoniare che l’amore non ha mai fine.” [. . .]    —Talita Frezzi, Centro Pagina, February 14, 2021.

Categories: Digital Media, Written Word
Tagged with: 2021, Italy, Love, Paolo and Francesca

Elena Ferrante, Storia del nuovo cognome (2012)

January 3, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“Ma adesso, a Ischia, aveva incontrato Lila e avevo capito che lei era stata fin dall’infanzia—e sarebbe stata sempre in futuro—il suo vero unico amore. Eh sì, era andata di sicuro a questo modo. E come rimproverarlo? Dov’era la colpa? C’era, nella loro storia, qualcosa d’intenso, di sublime, affinità elettive. Evocai versi e romanzi come tranquillanti. Forse, pensai, aver studiato mi serve solo a questo: a calmarmi. Lei gli aveva acceso la fiamma in petto, lui per anni l’aveva custodita senza accorgersene: ora che quella fiamma era divampata. Cos’altro poteva fare se non amarla. Anche se lei non l’amava. Anche se era sposata e quindi inaccessibile, vietata: un matrimonio dura per sempre, oltre la morte. A meno che non lo si infranga condannandosi alla bufera infernale fino giorno del Giudizio.”   –Elena Ferrante, Storia del nuovo cognome (p. 237)

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2012, Fiction, Inferno, Italy, Literature, Love, Lust, Marriage, Novels, Paolo and Francesca

Jasmine Serna’s Measuring Love with Cups

November 29, 2020 By Jasmine George, FSU '24

“One of the most profound ways I’ve learned to see the world is based off a lesson in a class I took about Dante’s The Divine Comedy. My professor Dr. Glyer was explaining Dante’s vision of heaven in Paradiso.

“She brought up many different sized cups to the front of the classroom — some were tall and skinny, others short and wide, some small, others big. She explained that the cups represented each person’s capacity to love. The bigger the cup, the bigger the capacity to love.

“She explained that our cups were always changing while we’re alive. All of our little daily actions — from returning an item someone dropped, to listening to a friend in need, to showing patience for children — increase or decrease our cup size.

“Then she explained that in Dante’s spheres of heaven, the cup size we end up with at the end of our lives determines where we’ll end up in heaven. No matter our cup size, though, all of our cups will be completely full.”   –Jasmine Serna, Medium, 2019

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2019, Heaven, Love, Paradiso

Margaret Wertheim on Science and God

November 5, 2020 By Jasmine George, FSU '24

“Centuries after Ada Lovelace, the world’s first computer programmer, contemplated the relationship between science and religion, and decades after Carl Sagan did the same in his exquisite Varieties of Scientific Experience, physicist-turned-science-writer Margaret Wertheim offers perhaps the most elegant and emboldening reconciliation of these two frequently contrasted approaches to the human longing for truth and meaning.

“Wertheim is the creator of the PBS documentary Faith and Reason, author of deeply thoughtful books like Pythagoras’s Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender War and The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet, and cofounder of The Institute for Figuring — ‘an organization dedicated to the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of science, mathematics and engineering’.”

“[Wertheim:] ‘I don’t know that I believe in the existence of God in the Catholic sense. But my favorite book is the Divine Comedy. And at the end of the Divine Comedy, Dante pierces the skin of the universe and comes face-to-face with the love that moves the sun and the other stars. I believe that there is a love that moves the sun and the other stars. I believe in Dante’s vision.'”   –Maria Popova, “Dante and the Eternal Quest for Nonreligious Divinity,” Brainpickings, 2015

See the full article here.

Categories: Digital Media, Written Word
Tagged with: 2015, God, Love, Love that Moves the Sun and Other Stars, Margaret Wertheim, Physics, Religion, Science, Spirituality

Natsume Sōseki, The Wayfarer (Kojin) (1912)

October 3, 2020 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“[I]t gradually becomes clear that marriages good and bad, arranged and romantic are constants in this narrative. Suffering from a kind of existential crisis, Ichiro’s marriage to Nao is in trouble. Ichiro even suspects that his feckless younger brother Jiro has been carrying on with Nao, and voices despairing references to Paolo and Francesca from Dante’s Inferno. The third part of the book covers the period after they all return to Tokyo from their travels. As Ichiro and Nao’s marriage continues to deteriorate, Nao is tight-lipped, refusing to argue or complain, while Ichiro seems close to a nervous breakdown.”   –B. Morrison, “The Wayfarer (Kojin), by Natsume Sōseki” (March 22, 2010)

See also our post on Sōseki’s 1908 novel The Miner.

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 1912, Fiction, Inferno, Japan, Love, Marriage, Novels, Paolo and Francesca, Tokyo

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