Professor Spense Di Scala will celebrate the 150th anniversary of Italian unity with a talk entitled "Italy 150: A Different Interpretation."
The talk will take place at the Dante Alighieri Society in Cambridge,
and is sponsored by La Federazione delle Associazioni Abruzzesi USA, in cooperation with
the Consolato Generale d'Italia in Boston and the Dante Alighieri Society
Sunday, Setember 26 at 3
Dante Alighieri Society, 41 Holland Street, Cambridge, MA
For more information please contact Romagnoli1@rcn.com
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
"La Commedia" by Amos Poe
" La Commedia, the new film produced and directed by Amos Poe, one of the protagonists of the “No Wave Cinema” - the underground film movement based in New York, and father of the American Indie cinema, was concluded in time for the 67th Venice International Film Festival.
The film had its world premiere on Friday September 3rd, at Midnight in the Sala Grande (Palazzo del Cinema), Out of Competition. The readings of the verses by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri are by Roberto Benigni (Paradiso), Alfonso Santagata (Inferno), Sandro Lombardi (Purgatorio). Loretta Mugnai is the metaphorical Beatrice Portinari. Music by Debbie Harry, Decay of Angels, Hayley Moss, Peter Gordon, Muchael Duclos, Brenda Elthon, Paraphilia, Dave Mitchell, Riccardo Moretti, and Andres Nazrala. [...]
Amos Poe’s La Commedia is inspired by Dante Alighieri’s literary masterpiece The Divine Comedy and Eadweard Muybridge’s 19th century breakthrough The Horse in Motion, arguably the first “motion picture”. The key element of this film is the idea of a journey in motion, our life’s journey from hell, to purgatory to paradise - a pattern of events. Amos and Dante are two middle-aged “travellers” that have to confront themselves while undergoing a mid-life crisis. “Midway upon the journey of our life | I found myself within a forest dark...” so begins the Inferno. La Commedia is conceived as a cinema-verite document of Poe’s exile in Italy and France and especially Florence. It deals primarily with the perception of motion in a motion picture, whatever “narrative” we find is completely subjective. It’s composed of 20,000 animated still images divided into three cinematic sequences (100 minutes, like Dante’s 100 “canti”) that remind us of Dante Alighieri’s allegorical journey in search of Beatrice through Hell, Purgatory and Heaven - a kind of re-invention of the Commedia for the 21st Century, seven centuries after Alighieri’s revolutionary masterpiece. Poe carves a new “lingua vulgare” on the movie screen – a “dolce stil novo” of poetry.
The Directors said: “I was looking for a film to make and was looking for a good writer. Dante came to mind. La Commedia grew organically from my readings of The Divine Comedy, falling in love with a Florentine, my fascination with the roots of cinema as a movable poetic feast, and the help of thousands of fans on Facebook. My hope is that the viewer will be equally entertained by what is going on on the screen as by what’s happening in her or his head and heart. I believe that the magic of cinema lies in the interaction between the two narratives, the one that occurs in front of us and the one inside our soul”.
The film is an avant-garde production. While predicated on the prolific support of social networks such as YouTube, Facebook and Kickstarter - thus pushing the envelope of filmmaking today – it was produced by its author, in collaboration with producers Elena Santamaria, Ben Bindra, JR Skola and Victoria Bousis. " [source]
* teaser trailer [You Tube]
* trailer [Official website of filmmaker/screenwriter Amos Poe]
The film had its world premiere on Friday September 3rd, at Midnight in the Sala Grande (Palazzo del Cinema), Out of Competition. The readings of the verses by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri are by Roberto Benigni (Paradiso), Alfonso Santagata (Inferno), Sandro Lombardi (Purgatorio). Loretta Mugnai is the metaphorical Beatrice Portinari. Music by Debbie Harry, Decay of Angels, Hayley Moss, Peter Gordon, Muchael Duclos, Brenda Elthon, Paraphilia, Dave Mitchell, Riccardo Moretti, and Andres Nazrala. [...]
Amos Poe’s La Commedia is inspired by Dante Alighieri’s literary masterpiece The Divine Comedy and Eadweard Muybridge’s 19th century breakthrough The Horse in Motion, arguably the first “motion picture”. The key element of this film is the idea of a journey in motion, our life’s journey from hell, to purgatory to paradise - a pattern of events. Amos and Dante are two middle-aged “travellers” that have to confront themselves while undergoing a mid-life crisis. “Midway upon the journey of our life | I found myself within a forest dark...” so begins the Inferno. La Commedia is conceived as a cinema-verite document of Poe’s exile in Italy and France and especially Florence. It deals primarily with the perception of motion in a motion picture, whatever “narrative” we find is completely subjective. It’s composed of 20,000 animated still images divided into three cinematic sequences (100 minutes, like Dante’s 100 “canti”) that remind us of Dante Alighieri’s allegorical journey in search of Beatrice through Hell, Purgatory and Heaven - a kind of re-invention of the Commedia for the 21st Century, seven centuries after Alighieri’s revolutionary masterpiece. Poe carves a new “lingua vulgare” on the movie screen – a “dolce stil novo” of poetry.
The Directors said: “I was looking for a film to make and was looking for a good writer. Dante came to mind. La Commedia grew organically from my readings of The Divine Comedy, falling in love with a Florentine, my fascination with the roots of cinema as a movable poetic feast, and the help of thousands of fans on Facebook. My hope is that the viewer will be equally entertained by what is going on on the screen as by what’s happening in her or his head and heart. I believe that the magic of cinema lies in the interaction between the two narratives, the one that occurs in front of us and the one inside our soul”.
The film is an avant-garde production. While predicated on the prolific support of social networks such as YouTube, Facebook and Kickstarter - thus pushing the envelope of filmmaking today – it was produced by its author, in collaboration with producers Elena Santamaria, Ben Bindra, JR Skola and Victoria Bousis. " [source]
* teaser trailer [You Tube]
* trailer [Official website of filmmaker/screenwriter Amos Poe]
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
A month dedicated to Dante (Ravenna, 9/4/10-9/28/10)
"September is the month when Ravenna displays the Dantesque side of its identity by means of various events of cultural entertainment, among them Dante 09 with meetings dedicated to the importance of having a maestro in our lives, the Dantesque September programme that reflects on the theme of time that flies, the international readings of The Divine Comedy in the World, and the ceremonies that commemorate the death of the Master Poet."
* Programme
* Programme
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Sandow Birk: Dante’s Inferno (Salem, 10/10/10-12/23/10)
Sandow Birk: Dante’s Inferno
Salem (Oregon), Willamette University, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Study Gallery
October 16-December 23, 2010
"Sandow Birk is a Los Angeles, California painter and printmaker who, since the early 2000s, has re-imagined Dante’s Divine Comedy. Organized by director John Olbrantz, the exhibition features 36 prints and 20 drawings from Dante’s Inferno that the artist sets in contemporary Los Angeles, with Dante as a Southern Californian led by a mullet-sporting Virgil."
Dante's Divine Comedy "is a five year project which involved adapting the text of the entire "Divine Comedy" into contemporary slang and setting the action in contemporary urban America. The project resulted in three, limited edition books, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Each book contained more than 60 original lithographs and was published by Trillium Press in San Francisco."
Salem (Oregon), Willamette University, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Study Gallery
October 16-December 23, 2010
"Sandow Birk is a Los Angeles, California painter and printmaker who, since the early 2000s, has re-imagined Dante’s Divine Comedy. Organized by director John Olbrantz, the exhibition features 36 prints and 20 drawings from Dante’s Inferno that the artist sets in contemporary Los Angeles, with Dante as a Southern Californian led by a mullet-sporting Virgil."
Dante's Divine Comedy "is a five year project which involved adapting the text of the entire "Divine Comedy" into contemporary slang and setting the action in contemporary urban America. The project resulted in three, limited edition books, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Each book contained more than 60 original lithographs and was published by Trillium Press in San Francisco."
Monday, July 19, 2010
Dante Today: Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture
"This experimental website, inspired by students of Arielle Saiber’s “Dante’s Divine Comedy” course, has been built to archive occurrences of Dante and his works in popular and contemporary culture of the twentieth century and beyond. The site catalogs a wide range of Dante "sightings": from the cursory to the extensive, and from a place of superficial knowledge of Dante and his works to deep familiarity with them. We leave to the readers the opportunity to judge the nature of each citing, and note the frequency of certain themes over others. The goals are twofold: 1) to provide a central access point for said references; and 2) to offer data that students and scholars of Dante can use to think about the Nachleben (“afterlife”) of Dante’s works in relation to reception theory, resonance, and cultural studies."
Saturday, June 19, 2010
'Dante's Inferno' by Christos Gage and Diego Latorre
Dante's Inferno is a comic strip written by Christos N. Gage and illustrated by Diego Latorre, based on the EA video game, and published by WildStorm.
"Dante Alighieri is reimagined as a holy warrior who has returned from the Crusades to find his beloved fiancée Beatrice murdered. When her soul is ensnared by Lucifer, only Dante has the strength to open the gates of Hell and save her. But at what cost?"
In Italy, the series is published by Panini Comics.
"Dante Alighieri is reimagined as a holy warrior who has returned from the Crusades to find his beloved fiancée Beatrice murdered. When her soul is ensnared by Lucifer, only Dante has the strength to open the gates of Hell and save her. But at what cost?"
In Italy, the series is published by Panini Comics.
Friday, June 4, 2010
Dante's Inferno - A Natural History
"Dante's Inferno has been extensively illustrated, with accompanying notes, by Fabrica. A brandnew book published by Mondadori, appearing in bookstores from May 25.
More than 300 illustrations, all hand-made using different techniques and all accompanied by in-depth notation: a meticulous work, which gives the reader a fresh and original interpretation of one of the greatest masterpieces of everlasting literature.
Fabrica assigned this project to two young English artists, Patrick Waterhouse and Walter Hutton". [Fabrica's website]
"On June 7 at 9 pm Italian singer-songwriter Morgan interprets Dante at Fabrica. This inventive blend of contemporary culture and immortal poetry to help us understand the present, celebrates the release of a new edition of Dante's Inferno, published by Mondadori, illustrated and commentated by Benetton's creative laboratory." [News about Fabrica]
Enjoy some illustrations from the book: http://fabrica.it/project/dantes-inferno-a-natural-history
* Publisher's website
More than 300 illustrations, all hand-made using different techniques and all accompanied by in-depth notation: a meticulous work, which gives the reader a fresh and original interpretation of one of the greatest masterpieces of everlasting literature.
Fabrica assigned this project to two young English artists, Patrick Waterhouse and Walter Hutton". [Fabrica's website]
"On June 7 at 9 pm Italian singer-songwriter Morgan interprets Dante at Fabrica. This inventive blend of contemporary culture and immortal poetry to help us understand the present, celebrates the release of a new edition of Dante's Inferno, published by Mondadori, illustrated and commentated by Benetton's creative laboratory." [News about Fabrica]
Enjoy some illustrations from the book: http://fabrica.it/project/dantes-inferno-a-natural-history
* Publisher's website
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
"Dante's Hell" by Emiliano Pellisari
Inferno by Emiliano Pellisari
* article by Giuseppe Distefano [Il Sole 24 Ore]
* review by Rossella Battisti [L'Unita']: text and video
* videos [Pellissari's Channel]
Cantica II is expected to debut on Dec. 10, 2010 at Teatro Mancinelli, Orvieto.
* article by Giuseppe Distefano [Il Sole 24 Ore]
* review by Rossella Battisti [L'Unita']: text and video
* videos [Pellissari's Channel]
Cantica II is expected to debut on Dec. 10, 2010 at Teatro Mancinelli, Orvieto.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Lectura Dantis Bononiensis
In the second series of meetings, starting next March, scholars will read from Inferno V to Inferno XII. Paradiso XXXIII will be read in 2021.
Source: Unibo Magazine.
Source: Unibo Magazine.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Suddenly Dante - 5th edition (Florence, 5/15/10)
All'improvviso Dante - 100 canti per Firenze
5th edition
Florence - May 15, 2010
"In the historical center of Florence, hundreds of people of all ages come together in an afternoon to read and share the extraordinary beauty of poetry by reading Dante's Divine Comedy and simultaneous full. An amazing experience that makes the inexhaustible value of contemporary comedy, a great choral performance which suddenly turns every passer-by in a viewer."
All'improvviso Dante - 100 canti per Firenze is a collaboration between Culter and Elsinor Stable Theatre of Innovation.
5th edition
Florence - May 15, 2010
"In the historical center of Florence, hundreds of people of all ages come together in an afternoon to read and share the extraordinary beauty of poetry by reading Dante's Divine Comedy and simultaneous full. An amazing experience that makes the inexhaustible value of contemporary comedy, a great choral performance which suddenly turns every passer-by in a viewer."
All'improvviso Dante - 100 canti per Firenze is a collaboration between Culter and Elsinor Stable Theatre of Innovation.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Federico Zeri and Dante
Italian art historian Federico Zeri (1921-1998) interviewed by Antonio Debenedetti.
* part 1
* part 2
At the end of part 2 [m. 05:30-10:12], an extract from the movie Vita di Dante by Vittorio Cottafavi (1965) starring Giorgio Albertazzi [Dante], Loretta Goggi [Beatrice], Luigi Vannucchi [Cavalcanti].
* part 1
* part 2
At the end of part 2 [m. 05:30-10:12], an extract from the movie Vita di Dante by Vittorio Cottafavi (1965) starring Giorgio Albertazzi [Dante], Loretta Goggi [Beatrice], Luigi Vannucchi [Cavalcanti].
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Il Vero Volto di Dante - 2
Last summer, Alicia Sands wrote about the true face of Dante. Days ago, "Focus" published a picture of his double [Read the article]. Using a model made by anthropologist Francesco Mallegni, "Focus" found a very similar person and, after a make-up, took a picture of him in the same posture of the painting Dante in Exile . The result is quite surprising. [See an article by Luigi Mascheroni, "Il Giornale"]
A paper by Benazzi Stefano, Fantini Massimiliano, De Crescenzio Francesca, Mallegni Gabriele, MALLEGNI FRANCESCO, Persiani Franco, and Gruppioni Giorgio "describes the multi-disciplinary approach to reconstruct the face of Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). Since Dante’s sepulchre will be opened in 2021, the reconstructive process is based on morphological and metric data collected on the poet’s cranium during the formal identification of his remains in 1921 by the anthropologist Fabio Frassetto, as well as on the resulting plaster model. Starting from this plaster model and a morphologically compatible reference mandible, since the original mandible was never found, a 3D digital model of the complete skull was obtained by reverse engineering and virtual modelling techniques. The most important aspect in this work was the method of virtual modelling proposed for the ex novo generation of the mandible. The physical model of the skull (cranium þ mandible) was then produced by means of a rapid prototyping system. This model was finally used to recreate Dante’s face via traditional facial reconstruction techniques currently used in forensic anthropology." (abstract of the article The face of the poet Dante Alighieri reconstructed by virtual modelling and forensic anthropology techniques, JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 2009)
A paper by Benazzi Stefano, Fantini Massimiliano, De Crescenzio Francesca, Mallegni Gabriele, MALLEGNI FRANCESCO, Persiani Franco, and Gruppioni Giorgio "describes the multi-disciplinary approach to reconstruct the face of Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). Since Dante’s sepulchre will be opened in 2021, the reconstructive process is based on morphological and metric data collected on the poet’s cranium during the formal identification of his remains in 1921 by the anthropologist Fabio Frassetto, as well as on the resulting plaster model. Starting from this plaster model and a morphologically compatible reference mandible, since the original mandible was never found, a 3D digital model of the complete skull was obtained by reverse engineering and virtual modelling techniques. The most important aspect in this work was the method of virtual modelling proposed for the ex novo generation of the mandible. The physical model of the skull (cranium þ mandible) was then produced by means of a rapid prototyping system. This model was finally used to recreate Dante’s face via traditional facial reconstruction techniques currently used in forensic anthropology." (abstract of the article The face of the poet Dante Alighieri reconstructed by virtual modelling and forensic anthropology techniques, JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 2009)
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
La Nostra Commedia
La Nostra Commedia was a project made by "Corriere della Sera" in 2004. Writers, archaeologists, economists and philosophers discuss the Poem.
Raffaele Giglio's OpenCourseWare about Dante
Humanitas e poesia: il percorso dantesco al "divino" by Raffaele Giglio is an OpenCourseWare offered by Federica e-Learning, the online platform of the University of Naples Federico II.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
DanteOnLine.it - 1
A new version of the website DanteOnLine.it should soon be visited. According to an article by Zeffiro Ciuffoletti ("La Nazione") the portal curated by Zeugma - Agenzia per i Nuovi Media was presented at Società Dantesca Italiana on July 8, 2009.
* 2000 version curated by Infogroup Spa
* 2000 version curated by Infogroup Spa
"Purgatorio" by Romeo Castellucci (Los Angeles, Oct. 28-31, 2009)
"Freely inspired by Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” Italy’s maverick director Romeo Castellucci has created a “Purgatorio” where suffering and forgiveness are embodied in one family’s appalling ritual. Using a profoundly visual style, language falls away, actions and words disengage from each other, and reality warps. Castellucci’s work with Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio is among the most visionary—and controversial—experimental theater of our time. This disturbing piece lures audiences into a hauntingly beautiful nightmare and engages the senses in an experience unlikely to be forgotten." (UCLA Live website)
* video Inferno
* video Inferno
Dante09 (Ravenna, Sept. 3-6, 2009)
In addition to the traditional celebrations in occasion of the Poet's dead anniversary (Sept. 12-13; see the website of Centro Dantesco dei Frati Minori Conventuali or read the last year Major's speech) , Ravenna organizes a project - Dante09 - intended as a way to debate modern questions using Dante as a source of inspiration.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Tu poeta!
Dante Alighieri Society presents a survey about Italian poetry. You are invited to chose the most representative lines. You could add other lines.
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