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“Defascistizzare Dante”

June 17, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“[. . .] Per questo motivo, la storia di come nel nuovo millennio la poesia di Dante si possa trovare ad adornare uno studio medico di Roma Nord fianco a fianco a due manifesti di propaganda fascista è anche un po’ la storia irrisolta dell’Italia fascista e della sua defascistizzazione mancata. Il presente articolo, scritto nel settecentenario della morte del poeta e a quasi un secolo dalla marcia su Roma, racconta questa storia. È proprio in occasione dei festeggiamenti nazionali del centenario e del Dantedì, istituito per decreto e celebrato con retorica nazionalista che Antonio Montefusco ha analizzato sulle pagine di Jacobin Italia, che occorre riflettere sull’uso che si è fatto della figura di Dante, più che della sua poesia, nella storia d’Italia; e su come questo uso e questa storia siano ancora oggi intimamente compromessi col fascismo.” [. . .]   –Nicolò Crisafi, “Defascistizzare Dante,” Jacobin Italia, June 2, 2021

Categories: Digital Media, Written Word
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Dantedì, Fascism, Italy, Nationalism, Politics, Propaganda

Trump and his Enablers belong in Dante’s 9th Circle of Hell

June 16, 2021 By Ezra Berman '23

each-betrayal-begins-with-trust-martin-luther“If Dante’s deepest circle of Hell did exist, it would be reserved for Trump and his enablers. It would be reserved for those who betrayed our country and this beautiful blue world for profit. It would be reserved for those who allowed a pandemic to take tens of thousands of lives and affect millions. It would be reserved for those who are silent about the bounties placed on our active duty troops’ heads, who disparage our military, intelligence agencies, our scientists, and health care professionals. It would be reserved for those who place all that we love in danger.

“It would be reserved for those who supposedly care for us, but expect silence about their support of Trump or of those who support him.

“The list of betrayals in my life is long and old.” […]    –Onomastic, Daily Kos, September 15, 2020

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2020, American Politics, Betrayal, Circles of Hell, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Donald Trump, Hell, Inferno, Journalism, Ninth Circle, Political Leaders, Politics, Treachery, Trump

William Barr’s Circle of Hell

June 16, 2021 By Ezra Berman '23

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[. . .] “There are circles of hell for men such as Trump, and also for their enablers. For people who ought to know better but who go along with the inane, violent, crooked impulses of The Boss for reasons of political expediency. Barr is one such man.

“Dante reserved an entire section of hell for opportunists. Such people would, he wrote, be condemned to chase banners, and in turn to be chased by hornets and wasps, for all eternity.

“And this blind life of theirs is so debased,
They envious are of every other fate.
No fame of them the world permits to be;
Misericord and Justice both disdain them.”    –Sasha Abramsky, The Abramsky Report, April 27, 2019

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2019, American Politics, Circles of Hell, Donald Trump, Gates of Hell, Hell, Inferno, Inferno 3, Justice, Law, Lawyers, Neutrals, Political Leaders, Politics, William Barr

India’s Covid Wards are Like Scenes From Dante’s Inferno

June 16, 2021 By Ezra Berman '23

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“Ward rounds are now scenes from Dante’s Inferno. Row upon row of patients waging a desperate struggle to breathe, their cries for help often falling on deaf ears as overworked medical staff struggle just to keep going.” [. . .]    –Zarir Udwadia, The Financial Times, April 29, 2021

Categories: Places, Written Word
Tagged with: 2021, Covid-19, India, Inferno, New Delhi, Politics

Florence hosts ‘re-trial’ of Dante

June 15, 2021 By Ezra Berman '23

“Is justice delayed justice denied, or is it a case of better late than never? The poet Dante, author of the Divine Comedy, is being given a re-trial designed to posthumously clear his name.” […]    —Deutsche Welle, May 21, 2021

Categories: Places, Written Word
Tagged with: Exile, Florence, Germany, Italian Politics, Italy, Politics

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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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