Consumer Goods – Page 34

A Bookseller’s Catalogue of Works By and About Dante

May 14, 2010 By Professor Arielle Saiber

“[Chris Lowenstein] began acquiring antiquarian editions of Dante more seriously, with the idea of publishing her first catalogue entirely on the Italian poet. Since Dante’s work has a 700-year history, she narrowed her search by focusing on books published within the last 300 years, and only those that were illustrated, signed, or unusual in some way.
‘I wanted to show that you can build a really interesting and meaningful collection even if you couldn’t afford to buy the incunabula,’ Lowenstein said.
Book Hunter’s Holiday’s full-color catalogue containing 65 items was published last month. Lowenstein also provides a PDF version on her website [Book Hunter’s Holiday], as an invitation to young collectors.” [. . .] –Rebecca Rago Berry, Fine Books & Collections, March, 2010

Dante’s Internet: “Serious Business”

March 19, 2010 By Professor Arielle Saiber

“In the year or so since I started blogging, I’ve found myself ingrained into a number of internet communities which will here remain unnamed. But I have stumbled a cross an unwritten set of rules governing these communities, and someone took these general principles and fashioned them into this handy ‘Dante’s Inferno’ type chart.” […] -Paul Tassi, Unreality Magazine, February 18, 2010

Contributed by Victoria Rea-Wilson (Bowdoin, ’14)

Luke Rosenau on the role of Beatrice in the Comedy

March 12, 2010 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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“… In the hopes of providing Beatrice with as much agency as possible and reversing this unfortunate reversal of the original narrative arc, here is a remix of some clips from the trailer set to Beatrice’s speech via Virgil in Inferno II (verses 61-73). The audio is a reading by Lino Pertile from the Princeton Dante Project. And it was Professor Teodolinda Barolini’s concern over the game’s impact on the reception of Dante that sparked the remix in the first place.” –Luke Rosenau