“[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
Herman Melville’s Copy of the Comedy
“. . . Associate professor of English Steven Olsen-Smith is a leader in that scholarly community. He is the primary researcher responsible for tracking the recovery of Melville’s dispersed personal library of around 1,000 books and serves as general editor of Melville’s Marginalia Online, a long-term project devoted to the editing and publication of markings and annotations in the books that survive from Melville’s library.
Olsen-Smith recently borrowed Melville’s copy of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ from collector William Reese as part of the Marginalia project’s pending transition to a new digital format that will display photographic images of marked and annotated books with commentary on their significance to Melville’s writings. The book will be on campus through March 31, and Olsen-Smith’s student interns currently are working to catalog notations and recover erasures. . .
‘Melville marked subject matter dealing with issues of free will and fate, original sin and divine justice, and aspects of subject matter and rhetoric that relate to the book’s epic character,’ Olsen-Smith said. ‘It is clear Melville read and marked the book at different points throughout his life, and the interns are identifying parallels between the marginalia to Dante and subject matter in his writings.'” [. . .] –Erin Ryan, Boise State University Update, March 31, 2010
Contributed by Patrick Molloy
Peter Nathaniel Malae, “What We Are” (2010)
The protagonist of the novel, Paul, names a book of poetry after his girlfriend, Beatrice La Dulce Shaliqua Schneck “and after Dante’s muse, presumably because he, too, was a poet who made his fame in hell.” [. . .] –Fiona Maazel, The New York Times, March 18, 2010
Evil Diva’s “(Really) Old Man Adventures”
Evil Diva is a webcomic about a young devil who becomes a superhero. With the help of “Mr. Virgil,” Diva learns how to control her powers and find her place among the forces of good and evil. Dante appears in the sporadic mini-comics entitled “(Really) Old Man Adventures” as well as in some of the other sketch comics on the site. A four part series in the “(Really) Old Man Adventures” reinterprets and illustrates early parts of the Inferno and references the Vita Nuova.
Contributed by Michelle Scharlock (McGill University)
Yann Martel, “Beatrice & Virgil” (2010)
“Fate takes many forms. . . .
When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey—named Beatrice and Virgil—and the epic journey they undertake together.
With all the spirit and originality that made Life of Pi so beloved, this brilliant new novel takes the reader on a haunting odyssey. On the way Martel asks profound questions about life and art, truth and deception, responsibility and complicity.” —Amazon
Contributed by Aisha Woodward (Bowdoin, ’08)
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