Dante Today

Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture

  • Submit a Citing
  • Map
  • Links
  • Bibliography
  • User’s Guide
  • Teaching Resources
  • About

“Italy: Bel Paese,” Hiking & Trekking Club

November 25, 2022 By Sebastian Spadavecchio

Italy-Bel-Paese-View-of-St-Peters-Basilica“’La bellezza si risveglia l’anima di agire.’ — Dante (‘Beauty awakens soul to act.’)

“The beauty of the Italian capital is undisputed. You just can’t take a wrong step in Rome which is one of the reasons why Italy is called ‘Bel Paese’ meaning ‘Beautiful country.’ To visit Rome is to start a love affair. The Italian capital is an epic metropolis that will steal your heart with its architectural masterpieces, its buzzing piazzas and its romantic cobbled lanes.”

–Kshitij Nair, Hiking & Trekking Club IIT Mandi

Categories: Digital Media, Places, Written Word
Tagged with: 2020, Beauty Awakens the Soul to Act, Blog, India, Italy, Rome, School, Students, Tourism, Travel

Dante in San Gimignano, 2011

November 25, 2022 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

An actor declaims verses from Paradiso (33.108-111) in front of the Museo del Vino Vernaccia di San Gimignano. The video was captured by contributor Gerald Cloud on September 30, 2011.

Contributed by Gerald Cloud

For more on Dante and Vernaccia (the treasured Tuscan wine he cites in Purg. 24.24), see here.

Categories: Places
Tagged with: 2011, Italy, Paradiso, Paradiso 33, Purgatorio, San Gimignano, Tourism, Tuscany, Vernaccia, Wines

Dante Caught Without a Mask: Street Art in Florence

May 17, 2022 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

Dante-caught-without-a-mask-Street-Art-Florence

“Fantastic this work, certainly dating back to the lockdown in March [2020] and unfortunately already in an advanced stage of deterioration. Protagonist Dante Alighieri, acknowledged father of Italian literature and language, author of the Divine Comedy, dressed as always in red and crowned with laurel. Arrested as caught without a mask by a policeman with an anti-Covid 19 mask (with an American uniform?) and by another figure in a spacesuit (an astronaut?), also with a mask!  Live-size pictures. Many metaphors can be ventured! Florence, via delle Seggiole.”   —Arte Leonardo blog, Leonardo da Vinci Art School

Categories: Places, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2020, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Dante Portraits, Florence, Italy, Lockdown, Masks, Police, Street Art

Dante’s Pizza & Pasta, Klerksdorp, South Africa

May 12, 2022 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

dantes-pizza-pasta-klerksdorp

Dante’s Pizza & Pasta is located in La Piazza Square in Klerksdorp, South Africa.

Categories: Dining & Leisure, Places
Tagged with: 2013, Dante Portraits, Face of Dante, Italian Restaurants, Klerksdorp, Pasta, Pizza, Restaurants, South Africa

L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle Exhibit at the CityLife Park in Milan

April 12, 2022 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

CityLife_park_exhibition_image

“In collaborazione con Kooness.com e Arte Generali, ‘L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle’ è la grande mostra pubblica disseminata nel Parco di CityLife. Organizzata nell’ambito delle celebrazioni dantesche, gli artisti presenti si sono confrontati con i temi di esilito, invenzione e linguaggio.

“A fare da cappello introduttivo alla mostra un elemento surreale: una pensilina (opera di Michela Lucenti, Fermata Tre Colori) installata all’interno del parco, sul bordo di un sentiero interno, che segna la linea 33 in “Piazza Tre Colori”: in realtà nessun autobus passerà mai da quella fermata, che assolve invece alla funzione di mappa in cui trovare i riferimenti alle opere disseminate nel verde di CityLife. Si tratta di lavori accomunati dalle stesse tematiche ma sviluppati attraverso l’impiego dei più disparati materiali, tecniche e esiti creativi: dall’opera sonora di Roberto Cacciapaglia, Cammino stellare, a quella interattiva di Matteo Vettorello, Sintonizzatore di decongestione ambientale, dalla fotografia Beatrice e il Poeta di Giovanni Gastel al noto Terzo Paradiso di Michelangelo Pistoletto. Il riflesso aureo è al centro delle opere di Alice Ronchi, con SOLE/SUN e quella di Marco Nereo Rotelli, Il Sole e le altre “Stelle”; lo sguardo è il filo conduttore dell’opera di Alice Padovani (Lo sguardo sospeso/The suspense gaze) mentre la trascendenza lo è in Drop the body, di Patrick Tuttofuoco. Infine, il Paradiso dantesco è evocato da Silt Prophecy di Lucia Cristiani, che rappresenta un fondale argenteo in cui scorre un flusso d’acqua (realizzato in stagno), e Paradisi di Velasco Vitali, trentatré uccelli in bronzo patinato i quali posano sui rami di trentatré alberi piantati nel prato di CityLife.”[. . .]    –Giulia Ronchi, Artribune, March 29, 2021 (retrieved April 12, 2022)

Categories: Places, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle, Art, Exhibitions, Italy, Milan, Paradiso, Parks

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • …
  • 27
  • Next Page »

Frequent Tags

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 700th anniversary Abandon All Hope Album Art Albums America American Politics Art Artists Beatrice Blogs Books California Circles of Hell Comics Covid-19 Dark Wood Divine Comedy England Fiction Films Florence France Games Gates of Hell Gustave Doré Heavy Metal Hell History Humor Illustrations Inferno Internet Italian Italy Journalism Journeys Literary Criticism Literature Love Metal Music New York New York City Non-Fiction Novels Paintings Paolo and Francesca Paradise Paradiso Performance Art Poetry Politics Purgatorio Purgatory Religion Restaurants Reviews Rock Science Fiction Sculptures Social Media Spirituality Technology Television Tenth Circle Theater Translations United Kingdom United States Universities Video Games Virgil

ALL TAGS »

Image Mosaic

Recent Dante Citings

  • Kat Mustatea, Ambivaland (2023)
  • Hozier, Unreal Unearth (2023 album)
  • Brenda Clough, “Clio’s Scroll” (2023)
  • Arcade Fire, “End of the Empire IV” (2022)
  • The Volcano Store, Castle Crashers Video Game (2008)
  • Paterson (2016 film)
  • Mark Vernon on Dante for El Exquisito (May 2023)

Categories

  • Consumer Goods (196)
  • Digital Media (151)
  • Dining & Leisure (108)
  • Image Mosaic (100)
  • Music (246)
  • Odds & Ends (91)
  • Performing Arts (367)
  • Places (134)
  • Uncategorized (1)
  • Visual Art & Architecture (427)
  • Written Word (873)

Submit a Sighting

All submissions will be considered for posting. Bibliographic references and scholarly essays are also welcome for consideration.

How to Cite

Coggeshall, Elizabeth, and Arielle Saiber, eds. Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture. Website. Access date.

Creative

© 2006-2023 Dante Today