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Watercolor Lithograph by “Mata”

May 10, 2009 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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Bettino Ricasoli as Count Ugolino attacks Urbano Rattazzi, who ousted him in 1892 from his leading role in the government. This piece was on exhibit at the “150 Years of La Nazione” in Florence, Italy at the Palazzo Medici Riccardi, March 7 – April 30, 2009.

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Contributed by Kavi Montanaro

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 1892, 2009, Florence, Humor, Italy, Lithographs, Politics, Ugolino

“You Will Feel the Heat” Penny Arcade Comic (2008)

January 10, 2009 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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Found at Penny Arcade.

Contributed by Charlie Russell-Schlesinger (Bowdoin, ’08)

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture, Written Word
Tagged with: 2009, Comics, Hell, Humor, Inferno, Politics

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

City of Florence Pardons Dante

June 22, 2008 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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“The city of Florence has issued a pardon for the poet, 700 years after it sentenced him to death for his political beliefs. Peter Popham reports on the man who turned Italian into a literary language.” [. . .]    —The Independent, June 19, 2008

Contributed by Patrick Molloy

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2008, Florence, Italy, Journalism, Politics

Artist Sergio Vega on Dante

July 31, 2007 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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Sergio Vega, detail from The Golden Age with Mosquitoes, 1999

“Nicolas Guagnini: The first piece of yours I’d ever seen was a small painted sculpture, a parrot with the face of Dante Alighieri. My obvious reaction was amusement. Dante could not stop writing, just as parrots can’t stop talking. Once the humor subsided, I understood what you were getting at: Dante was giving us a version of biblical themes, namely heaven and hell, in his own contemporary terms. Are you a theological commentator or an evolutionist?
Sergio Vega: I am glad you bring up that piece, Dante-parrot, because it functions as an axis upon which most of the work I have produced in the last eight years hinges. At the time I made it, I was puzzled by the term U.S. politicians were using, when they referred to the countries of Latin America as “our backyard.” Immersed as I was in Dante’s work, I decided to make a cast from a replica of his death mask to represent a habitant of that backyard, like one of those cement dwarfs people use to decorate their gardens. Dante is turned into a parrot as if someone had put a spell on him; he is entering the Garden of Eden (in Canto 28 of Purgatorio). Besides the joke that the parrot’s beak is in this case Dante’s famous nose, the piece proposes a paradox of ideas about originality, staging the contradictions of a constituted Latin subject: Dante, the author who articulated a new language in order to produce his own work, is embodied in the vernacular representation of a bird that mimics speech.” [. . .]    –Nicolàs Guagnini, Bombsite, 2001

Contributed by Hope Stockton (Bowdoin ’07)

Categories: Image Mosaic, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2001, Paintings, Politics, Sculptures

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Coggeshall, Elizabeth, and Arielle Saiber, eds. Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture. Website. Access date.

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