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Dante Songs (October 2021)

November 3, 2021 By Hannah Raisner, FSU '25

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The 9:46 long composition by Darko Domitrović is made up of three songs. The first is “Inferno,” followed by “Purgatorio,” ending with “Paradiso.” Martina Zadro sings Dante’s poetry while accompanied by Domitrović on piano.

Find the recording on your favorite streaming service here, or listen on YouTube.

The complete score is available for free download here.

Contributed by Darko Domitrović

Categories: Music, Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2021, Croatia, Inferno, Music, Paradiso, Piano, Purgatorio, Slovenia, Vocal

Exhibit: Klaus Wrage illustratore della Divina Commedia

November 2, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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“La mostra presenta 36 xilografie di Klaus Wrage, artista espressionista tedesco, sulla Divina Commedia da una collezione privata, in occasione delle celebrazioni per i 700 anni dalla morte di Dante Alighieri.

“L’evento rappresenta la magia di un incontro, quello fra le immagini di un maestro dimenticato e i vertici più alti della poesia di tutti i tempi, cioè i versi del Sommo poeta Dante. L’incontro, che per Klaus Wrage ha avuto un peso decisivo nella sua vita (è lui stesso a definirlo salvifico) ci rivela anche l’aspetto universale dell’opera più pubblicata al mondo dopo la Bibbia, un primato che fa della Divina Commedia uno dei fenomeni letterari che maggiormente hanno inciso sulla cultura internazionale.” [. . .]    —Associazione per la promozione artistica e culturale del Lago Maggiore (AMALAGO)

The exhibit ran from June 5th – June 27th, 2021.

See our post on Klaus Wrage’s illustrations here.

Categories: Places, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 700th anniversary, Exhibitions, Germany, Ghiffa, Illustrations, Inferno, Italy, Lago Maggiore, Paradiso, Purgatorio, Surrealism, Woodblock

Klaus Wrage, Divine Comedy Illustrations (ca. 1925)

November 2, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

klaus-wrage-illustration“Nelle tavole realizzate con la tecnica dell’incisione sul legno, Klaus Wrage racconta l’inferno, il purgatorio e il paradiso danteschi attraverso pieni e vuoti, bianco e nero, ricreando così l’effetto “chiaroscuro” dei contrasti vissuti e narrati da Dante Alighieri nella sua opera.

“Il bene, il male, la luce e il buio, sono questi gli elementi che l’artista tedesco riporta nei suoi lavori cercando un’interpretazione del pensiero di Dante, attribuendogli significati diversi a seconda della chiave impiegata: semantica, religiosa o simbolica.”    —Associazione per la promosionze artistica e culturale del Lago Maggiore (AMALAGO)

See our post about an exhibit of Klaus Wrage illustrations in Italy here.

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: Adaptations, Germany, Illustrations, Inferno, Malente, Paolo and Francesca, Paradiso, Printing, Purgatorio, Surrealism, Visual Art, Woodblock

Martin Kemp, Visions of Heaven: Dante and the Art of Divine Light (2021)

October 23, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

visions-of-heaven-dante-and-the-art-of-divine-light-martin-kemp-cover“In Visions of Heaven, renowned scholar Martin Kemp investigates Dante’s supreme vision of divine light and its implications for the visual artists who were the inheritors of Dante’s vision. The whole book may be regarded as a new Paragone (comparison), the debate that began in the Renaissance about which of the arts is superior. Dante’s ravishing accounts of divine light set painters the severest challenge, which took them centuries to meet. A major theme running through Dante’s Divine Comedy, particularly in its third book, the Paradiso, centres on Dante s acts of seeing (conducted according to optical rules with respect to the kind of visual experience that can be accomplished on earth) and the overwhelming of Dante s earthly senses by heavenly light, which does not obey his rules of earthly optics. [. . .] Published to coincide with the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, this hugely original book combines a close reading of Dante’s poetry with analysis of early optics and the art of the Renaissance and Baroque to create a fascinating, wide-ranging and visually exciting study.”    — Amazon (retrieved October 18, 2021)

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Art, Books, Fine Art, Inferno, Light, Non-Fiction, Optics, Paradiso, Poetry, Purgatorio, Renaissance, Vision

D. M. Black’s Translation of Purgatorio (2021)

October 23, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

new-translation-purgatorio-d-m-black-cover“A new translation of Dante’s Purgatorio that celebrates the human elements of the second part of The Divine Comedy. This is a bilingual edition with an illuminating introduction from the translator.

“Black, a distinguished psychoanalyst as well as a poet, provides an introduction and commentary to this masterpiece by Dante from a contemporary point of view in this bilingual edition.” [. . .]    —Amazon (retrieved on October 20, 2021)

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2021, Poetry, Purgatorio, Translations

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