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“Dante in Jazz” (Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Istanbul)

August 12, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“Nel 700° anniversario della morte di Dante Alighieri, siamo qui sul palco del teatro dell’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Istanbul, con una lettura drammatica della Divina Commedia.

“L’attore Nuri Karadeniz declama in turco (sottotitoli in italiano) il Primo Canto dell’Inferno mentre il musicista Yiğit Özatalay eseguirà al piano sue composizioni jazz originali scritte per l’occasione.”

The performance is preceded by a short lecture (in Italian with Turkish subtitles) by Salvatore Schirmo, Director of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Istanbul, who highlights the influence of Dante and his works on contemporary Turkish literature and culture. The video premiered on YouTube on Dantedì (March 25) 2021.

Categories: Digital Media, Music, Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Canto 1, Dantedì, Istanbul, Jazz, Live Performances, Nel Mezzo del Cammin, Recitation, Translations, Turkey, YouTube

Maurizio Lastrico, “Nel mezzo del casin di nostra vita” (2019)

January 2, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“Nel suo nuovo spettacolo ‘Nel mezzo del casin di nostra vita,’ Maurizio Lastrico recita i suoi celebri endecasillabi ‘danteschi,’ che mescolano il tono alto e quello basso, che raccontano con ironia di incidenti quotidiani, di una sfortuna che incombe, di un caos che gode nel distruggere i rari momenti di tranquillità della vita. Propone inoltre le sue storie condensate, in cui la sintesi e l’omissione generano un gioco comico di grande impatto.”   —Teatro.it

The show first ran in 2019 and has run continuously through 2020 and the first half of 2021. See teatro.it for more information.

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: Comedy, Humor, Inferno, Irony, Nel Mezzo del Cammin, Poetry

…mi ritrovai in una strana pandemia… (2020)

January 2, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

In the last days of 2020, the image below was circulating on various social media platforms (Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook):

Contributed by Irene Zanini-Cordi (Florida State University)

Categories: Digital Media
Tagged with: 2020, 2021, 700th anniversary, Coronavirus, Inspiration, Nel Mezzo del Cammin, New Year, Poetry, Stars

Humanities Magazine’s “What’s the Best Way to Read the Divine Comedy If You Don’t Know Italian?”

November 12, 2020 By Laura Chatellier, FSU '23

humanities-magazine-tour-of-translation-2020-wikimedia“In comparing these two translations, the Sayers version seems to win out in two ways—it matches Dante in form and, to a degree, in content. By starting with ‘Midway this way of life we’re bound upon,’ she remains faithful to the starting point, ‘nel mezzo,’ while Mandelbaum pushes this to the middle of the first line. Sayers adds ‘bound upon’ (not, strictly speaking, in the original), which allows her to make the rhyme in the third line with ‘gone.’ But Mandelbaum is more faithful to the directness of the original, not stretching the meaning or introducing words to make the rhyme. His metered language often seems more natural than Sayers’ and more in keeping with the diction of Dante, which favored solid vocabulary and straight-forward syntax. Mandelbaum, will, in fact, interject rhyme if it’s not forced (as he does with way and stray). In spite of first impressions favoring Sayers, most readers who choose to make the entire journey from inferno to purgatory and finally paradise ultimately find the Mandelbaum translation more satisfying.” [. . .]    –Steve Moyer, Humanities: The Magazine Of The National Endowment For The Humanities, 2017

 

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2017, Literary Criticism, Literature, Longfellow, Nel Mezzo del Cammin, Poetry, Reviews, Translations

CIX, Hello Chapter 3: Hello, Strange Time (2020)

October 24, 2020 By Professor Arielle Saiber

See the video teaser trailer here 

Contributed by Justin Meckes

Categories: Music, Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2020, Abandon All Hope, Dark Wood, K-Pop, Lasciate ogne speranza, Nel Mezzo del Cammin, Selva oscura, South Korea

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