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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

Infiorata di Noto, Omaggio a Dante (2021)

May 17, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

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“L’infiorata di Noto is an annual event in Noto, Sicilia, which creates an extended street design made entirely of flowers. This year’s design is dedicated to the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death.”   –Contributor Kate McKee

“La 42esima Infiorata di via Nicolaci si farà e sarà un omaggio a Dante Alighieri. Si svolgerà dal 14 al 16 maggio, nel massimo rispetto delle normative anticontagio da Covid-19, privilegiando ancora una volta il messaggio di forza, speranza e resilienza che Noto vuole mandare al Mondo intero, come già successo con l’edizione 2020 dal tema ‘La Bellezza è più Forte della Paura’.”   —Infiorata di Noto website (accessed May 17, 2021)

The theme of this year’s annual festival is “E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle,” which, as the above citation explains, celebrates the strength, hope, and resilience of Noto in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Contributed by Kate McKee (Bowdoin College ’22)

Categories: Places
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Covid-19, Festivals, Flowers, Hope, Italy, Noto, Pandemic, Resilience, Sicily, Stars, stelle, Strength

Professor Fabian Alfie’s Tattoo

December 26, 2018 By Professor Arielle Saiber

Professor Fabian Alfie’s tattoo.  Inferno 34.139.

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture, Written Word
Tagged with: Hell, Inferno, stelle

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