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Kudzanai Chiurai, Charity (2013)

April 28, 2022 By Sephora Affa, FSU '24

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“Dante echoes Saint Paul (Rom. 5:1-5) when he shows charity as born of hope, in turn generated by faith. These three virtues sum up all the celestial philosophy and constitute the very condition of salvation. Within the doctrinal field, the word indicates the fundamental attitude of the Father towards all His creatures, a relationship that finds its perfect form in the blessed [. . .] (Purgatorio, Canto XV, 71).”

Retrieved from The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists by Simon Njami.

To learn more about the Zimbabwean artist and activist Kudzanai Chiurai, see Wikipedia. Read an interview with the artist about his related 2012 video work Iyeza on the RISD Museum blog.

 

 

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2013, Africa, Art Books, Charity, Christianity, Collages, Pop Culture, Purgatorio, St. Paul, Zimbabwe

Lucca Comics and Games Festival: “A Riveder le Stelle” (2021)

March 8, 2022 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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“‘Lucca Comics & Games is a unique cross-media event dedicated to pop culture, cosplay, and comics held in a medieval Tuscan town,’ said Emanuele Vietina, Director of Lucca Comics & Games.

“This year Italy is honouring poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri by celebrating the 700th anniversary of his death and Dante’s Divine Comedy sets the tone for the returning festival with this year’s theme being ‘rebehold the stars: light’.

“‘The theme of Light will visually accompany the Festival experience with contemporary Italian illustrator Paolo Barbieri creating the image of Lucca Comics & Games poster (above). In the year of Dante’s celebrations, he creates a link between Lucca Comics & Games to Dante’s journey with Virgil through the darkness of Hell.” [. . .]    —SciFiNow, September 24, 2021 (retrieved March 8, 2022)

The festival took place, in-person, from October 29 – November 1, 2021.

Categories: Odds & Ends, Places
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Comics, Cosplay, Festivals, Games, Italy, Lucca, Pop Culture, stelle

Dante, l’italiano (2021)

October 17, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

dante-l-italiano-cover-image-a-riveder-le-stelle-giovanna-frosini-giuseppe-polimeni“Nel libro, intorno alla figura e alla lingua di Dante, convergono storie di ricerca diverse. Studiosi noti e affermati, dantisti di vaglia, si affiancano a giovani ma agguerriti ricercatori. Temi tradizionalmente legati ai più vari aspetti dell’azione e dell’immagine di Dante tracciano i perimetri fondamentali delle sue idee linguistiche, della sua operosità, della sua presenza e del suo riuso nella tradizione e nella storia, non solo letteraria, ma anche figurativa e dialettale; a essi si uniscono temi nuovi e meno scontati, che toccano molti dei mezzi e modi della comunicazione destinata al largo pubblico (dall’opera lirica alle canzoni, dal Dante dei fumetti e per ragazzi al Dante degli enigmisti, fino a una più generale considerazione del Dante pop). La varietà degli argomenti trova riscontro nella disponibilità di materiali inediti e studiati per la prima volta, che ci si augura possano essere apprezzati, anche per una fruizione didattica, da un pubblico italiano e internazionale; a questa finalità risponde anche l’inserimento di una sitografia aggiornata.”    —goWare

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Academia, Accademia della Crusca, Italian, Italy, Language, Pop Culture, Scholarship

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