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“Fa come natura fece in foco”: Glassworks Exhibit at the Venice Biennale

August 12, 2009 By Professor Arielle Saiber

padiglione-vezenia-biennale“In 1972, glass ceased to have its own section at the Venice Biennale, when the inclusion of what were considered ‘decorative arts’ was abandoned. But at this year’s event, glass has made a comeback in two separate shows: ‘Glasstress,’ an official parallel exhibition at Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti on the Grand Canal, and ‘Fa come natura fece in foco,’ which borrows a line from Dante’s Divine Comedy (‘Do as nature does in the flame’) [Paradiso IV, 59] to evoke the fiery glass furnaces of Murano, at the Padiglione Venezia in the Biennale’s Castello Gardens (both until Nov. 22).” [. . .]    –Roderick Conway Morris, The New York Times, August 7, 2009

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2009, Glassworks, Italy, Paradiso, Venice

Metamorfosi, “Inferno” (1972) and “Paradiso (2004)

July 7, 2009 By

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This Italian progressive rock band released “Inferno” in 1972 and, 32 years later, “Paradiso.” The album tracks correspond with Dante’s journey through the afterlife, although in some cases the musicians did alter some of the sins punished in hell.

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 1972, 2004, Inferno, Italy, Paradiso, Progressive Rock

John Kinsella, “Divine Comedy: Journeys Through a Regional Geography” (2008)

November 21, 2008 By Professor Arielle Saiber

john-kinsella-divine-comedy-journeys-through-a-regional-geography-2008“This mammoth new volume from Australia’s Kinsella (Doppler Effect) takes its template and three-line stanza from the three books of Dante’s epic, out of order: first Purgatorio, then Paradiso, then Inferno. Each of the three works, made from dozens of separate poems, joins allusions to Dante with sights, events and memories from Kinsella’s Australia, especially the farming region outside Perth, where he grew up and sometimes lives. The poet’s wife, Tracy (his Beatrice, he says), and their toddler, Tim, play roles throughout. Mostly, though, the poems concern places, not people; their ground note is ecological, with nature taking many forms (locust wings… at sunrise over shallow farm-dams steaming already) set against the ballast/ of cars and infrastructures that endangers it all. That motif of eco-protest dominates the Inferno (last blocks of bushland// cleared away to placate the hunger/ for the Australian Dream), but it turns up in all three of these (perhaps too similar, and surely too long) sequences. Like his compatriot Les Murray, Kinsella can sound uncontrolled, even sloppy. Yet he can turn a phrase (Who describes where we are without thinking/ of when we’ll leave it?). Moreover, he means all he says and never exhausts his ideas or ambition.”    –Publisher’s Weekly, Amazon

Contributed by Aisha Woodward (Bowdoin, ’08)

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2008, Australia, Beatrice, Ecocriticism, Geography, Inferno, Journeys, Memoirs, Nature, Paradiso, Poetry, Purgatorio

“Tuscany” Perfumes by Aramis

April 8, 2008 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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Difficult to see, but the “Tuscany per donna” has as its slogan in French “Out of that stream there issued living sparks” (Par. XXX.64) and in English, “It draws fire to the moon” (Par. I.115). The “Tuscany per uomo” has as its slogan, “It moves the sun and the other stars” (last verse of Paradiso).

Contributed by Guy Raffa (University of Texas, Austin)

Categories: Consumer Goods
Tagged with: 2008, Advertising, Beauty, France, Italy, Love, Paradiso, Perfumes

Tangerine Dream, Divina Commedia Albums (2002, 2004, 2006)

January 31, 2008 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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See Discogs for information on albums Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.

Contributed by Joe Henderson (Bowdoin, ’10)

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2002, 2004, 2006, Ambient, Electronic, Inferno, Paradiso, Purgatorio

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