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Inferno 5 Website

November 2, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

inferno-5-website-screenshot“In occasione del settecentenario della scomparsa di Dante Alighieri, il Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale vi invita ad esplorare il Canto V dell’Inferno della Divina Commedia. Ascoltate le terzine, scoprite i personaggi che hanno ispirato il Sommo Poeta e l’influenza della vicenda di Paolo e Francesca sugli autori di tutto il mondo.”    –Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, Inferno 5 (retrieved October 29, 2021)

Categories: Digital Media, Written Word
Tagged with: 700th anniversary, Guides, Inferno, Inferno 5, Italian, Italy, Paolo and Francesca, Readings, Websites, World Languages

Dante Poliglotta Website

November 2, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

dante-poliglotta-sceenshot“Ogni lingua ha una sua musicalità, una sua potenzialità artistica, una sua produzione letteraria. E ogni produzione letteraria, piccola o grande che sia, è potenzialmente capace di moltiplicarsi per il numero enorme delle lingue esistenti.

“Con la Divina Commedia questa moltiplicazione ha raggiunto dimensioni davvero stupefacenti. Il sito Dante Poliglotta, che dispone di un patrimonio di circa duecento edizioni di traduzioni della Divina Commedia in sessanta lingue e dialetti diversi, ha appunto lo scopo di rendere omaggio all’universalità di Dante facendo conoscere questo ricco patrimonio culturale al pubblico della rete. Per il piacere di chi ama la Divina Commedia, per la gioia di chi adora le lingue e i dialetti, e per la consolazione di re Nembrotte di Babele.” [. . .]    –Giuliano Turone, Dante Poliglotta, 28 Ottubre, 2012

Categories: Digital Media, Written Word
Tagged with: Adaptations, Archives, Collections, Culture, Italian, Translations, Websites, World Languages

Zone Blanche Netflix Series (2017)

October 31, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

zone-blanche-netflix-series-posterZone Blanche (“Black Spot” in English) is a French-Belgian series directed by Matthieu Missoffe. Two seasons are currently available on Netflix, with future seasons expected.

“The entire first season of Black Spot contains so many Dante references that any aficionado of Inferno can spot them: the deathlike forest impenetrable by sunlight; the suicide victims suspended from the trees, horribly disfigured by attacking birds; a teenage girl who cuts off her own fingers to escape a hellish coming-of-age ritual; a descent into a treacherous network of caverns to locate a missing person, assumed dead; encounters with beings who may be either alive or dead; a legendary monster called the Wendigo; a reservoir of waste guaranteed to kill what little life remains in the dying village. The careful viewer will spot yet more parallels to Dante, some of which are very subtle.

“With a vision as true as it is dark, Missoffe’s Black Spot not only recasts the evils of Dante’s Florence, but of our entire Western world.”    –Contributor Jane Wineland

Contributed by Jane Wineland (University of Arkansas Ph.D. ’26)

 

Categories: Digital Media, Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2017, Crime Thrillers, Dark Wood, France, French, Horror, Inferno, Mystery, Netflix, Suicide, Suspense, Television, Thrillers

Student-Led “In via Dante Network”

October 31, 2021 By Sephora Affa, FSU '24

in-via-dante-network

The “In Via Dante Network” is “a student-led initiative for Post-Graduate Students and Early-Career Researchers with an interest in Dante Studies.”    —In Via Dante Network

The group organizes events, creates opportunities for networking, and maintains a mailing list through which members can initiate collaborations, advertise events, and provide support. Sign up for the listserv here.

Learn more on their website here.

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Tagged with: Academia, Collaboration, Networking, Student Projects, Students, Universities

Dante’s Purgatorio, video game by Charlie McKinney

October 18, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

Charlie McKinney of DeMatha Catholic High School (Hyattsville, Maryland) built a text-based video game based on Dante’s Purgatorio. The game was created as a project for ethics and theology teacher Homer Twigg’s unit on Dante’s Purgatorio in 2021. Check out the game here.

Categories: Digital Media
Tagged with: 2021, High School, Hyattsville, Maryland, Pedagogy, Purgatorio, Student Projects, Students, United States, Video Games

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