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Infernum Album, Claver Gold & Murubutu (2020)

November 29, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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Italian musicians Claver Gold and Murubutu released their collaborative album Infernum (stylized Infernvm) on March 31, 2020. The hip-hop/rap album features songs that make reference to characters and features of Dante’s Inferno including “Paolo e Francesca”, “Antinferno”, “Ulisse”, and “Selva Oscura”. This album will be discussed by scholar Francesco Ciabattoni in his contribution to the forthcoming volume Dante Alive.

For more information about the album, view its Discogs entry here.

The complete album can also be found on a playlist here.

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2020, Hip Hop, Inferno, Italian Musicians, Italy, Music, Paolo and Francesca, Rap, Selva oscura, Ulysses

Hexperos, “Midway Upon the Journey of Our Life” (2020)

November 14, 2021 By Sephora Affa, FSU '24

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Hexperos’ 2020 release, “Midway Upon the Journey of Our Life” draws inspiration from Canto I of the Inferno.

“‘Midway upon the journey of our life, we could found ourselves within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost.’ Never there was a sentence more apt to describe the disturbance we all feel at some point of our lives, when we feel lost, empty and we don’t know if the road that we have chosen, the journey of life undertaken, is actually the right one for us.

“The songs are stories of life, of sharing as well as in the Divine Comedy. As a matter of fact, who is in pain, often makes new encounters, shares their stories, through sharing and listening to the experiences of others we grow, we find a light in the darkness.” [. . .]    — Alessandra Santovito, Hexperos

Listen to the song here.

Learn more about Hexperos on their website, here.

Album art by Nicolás Menay

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2020, Album Art, Albums, Dark Wood, Emotions, Illustrations, Italy, Journeys, Music, Musical Instruments, Nel Mezzo del Cammin, Selva oscura, Songs, Suffering, Voice

Kevin Young and Robin Coste Lewis, Poems After Rauschenberg’s Inferno (2017)

October 31, 2021 By Sephora Affa, FSU '24

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“Robert Rauschenberg: Thirty-Four Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno, was published in conjunction with the first major retrospective on Rauschenberg’s career since the artist’s death in 2008, this book presents the complete set of 34 drawings, and newly commissioned poetry from Kevin Young and Robin Coste Lewis, each reflecting on a selection of drawings and their corresponding Cantos. Young’s half of the 34 Cantos are titled “The Dark Wood” and Lewis’ are erasures of John Ciardi’s Dante’s translation, titled “Dante Comes to America: 20 January 2017: An Erasure of 17 Cantos from Ciardi’s Inferno, after Robert Rauschenberg.” [. . . ]    —Poetry Society of America, (retrieved October 24, 2021)

View the poems and illustrations for Cantos II and XXIII here.

Relatedly, see the post on Robert Rauschenberg’s 34 Illustrations here.

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture, Written Word
Tagged with: 2017, Abstract Expressionism, American Poetry, Dark Wood, Drawings, Erasure, Illustrations, Inferno, Poetry, Selva oscura, Translations, United States

Pier Paolo Pasolini, La Divina Mimesis (1975)

October 24, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“[. . .] Ecco l’incipit de La Divina Mimesis: «Intorno ai quarant’anni, mi accorsi di trovarmi in un momento molto oscuro della mia vita. Qualunque cosa facessi, nella Selva della realtà del 1963, anno in cui ero giunto, assurdamente impreparato a quell’esclusione dalla vita degli altri che è la ripetizione della propria, c’era un senso di oscurità. Non direi di nausea, o di angoscia: anzi, in quella oscurità, per dire il vero, c’era qualcosa di terribilmente luminoso: la luce della vecchia verità, se vogliamo, quella davanti a cui non c’è più niente da dire».

“È un incipit terribile. Solitudine, aridità, vecchiaia, morte. Fine di ogni illusione. Non c’è più niente da dire. Il popolo vagheggiato da Pasolini non esiste più, è diventato piccolo borghese. La società contadina è stata spazzata via dal capitalismo globale. Il Potere non ha più volto, ci sono nuovi padroni, ma chi sono? L’omologazione completa, il conformismo totale, si fanno strada implacabili attraverso i media, in particolare la televisione. Moriremo di risate, l’intrattenimento al posto della cultura. Il consumismo sarà la nuova ‘ideologia,’ simpatica e tollerante per finta, totalitaria nella realtà. Al nuovo mercato mondiale, occorrono consumatori fatti con lo stampino, uguali uno all’altro, intercambiabili: è una questione di efficienza, e l’efficienza è l’unica regola del capitalismo globale. [. . .]”    –Alessandro Gnocchi, “L’Inferno di Pasolini,” Insula Europea (October 24, 2021)

Read the rest of Alessandro Gnocchi’s discussion of La Divina Mimesis here.

Read a selection (“Canto VII”), translated into English by Bruce Merry, in the London Magazine’s Archives.

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 1975, Capitalism, Consumerism, Ideology, Italian, Italian Politics, Italy, Marxism, Nel Mezzo del Cammin, Political Commentary, Politics, Prose, Rome, Selva oscura, Social Commentary

Selva Oscura Album, Lawrence English and William Basinski (2018)

October 26, 2020 By lsanchez

“Tonight, as part of the Fulcrum Arts Annual Benefit fundraiser—which itself sits within Fulcrum Arts’ A×S Festival: City as Wunderkammer—Lawrence English and William Basinski will present the world premiere performance of their collaborative album Selva Oscura.”    –XLR8R Staff, XLR8R, November 7, 2018

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2018, California, Los Angeles, Music, Musicians, Selva oscura, United States

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