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Purgatorio Album, Metamorfosi (2016)

January 8, 2022 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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Italian progressive rock band Metamorfosi released their album Purgatorio on October 14, 2016. The album’s tracklist features several references to the second half of Dante’s Divine Comedy including “Paradiso Terrestre”, “Porta del Purgatorio”, and “Beatrice”. The band previously released albums titled Inferno and Paradiso (see our post on those works here).

 

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2016, Albums, Italian Bands, Italy, Progressive Rock, Purgatorio

Dante Rebuses, a Verbis, and a Crossword

December 5, 2021 By Professor Arielle Saiber

Settimana Enigmistica #4046, 10 ottobre 2009, p. 40.
Contributed by Marco Arnaudo

 

Settimana Enigmistica #5961. Date unknown.
Contributed by Marco Arnaudo

L’Enigma, anno 1, numero 4 (1935)
Contributed by Marco Arnaudo

 

Designed by Marco Arnaudo, 2021

Designed by Marco Arnaudo, 2021

Categories: Odds & Ends
Tagged with: 1935, 2009, 2021, Crosswords, Italy, Paradiso, Puzzles, Rebus, Verbis

Infernum Album, Claver Gold & Murubutu (2020)

November 29, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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Italian musicians Claver Gold and Murubutu released their collaborative album Infernum (stylized Infernvm) on March 31, 2020. The hip-hop/rap album features songs that make reference to characters and features of Dante’s Inferno including “Paolo e Francesca”, “Antinferno”, “Ulisse”, and “Selva Oscura”. This album will be discussed by scholar Francesco Ciabattoni in his contribution to the forthcoming volume Dante Alive.

For more information about the album, view its Discogs entry here.

The complete album can also be found on a playlist here.

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2020, Hip Hop, Inferno, Italian Musicians, Italy, Music, Paolo and Francesca, Rap, Selva oscura, Ulysses

Inferno I Album, Kyterion (2016)

November 29, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

inferno-i-kyterion-album-coverItalian death metal band Kyterion released their album titled Inferno I on July 22, 2016. The track titles and songs make frequent reference to the text of the Divine Comedy including “La selva de’ suicidi”, “Limbo”, and “L’etterno dolore”. This album will be discussed by scholar Francesco Ciabattoni in his contribution to the forthcoming volume Dante Alive.

The Metal Archives User “Samtropy” has this to say about the album:

“This is the first of trilogy Black/Death metal interpretation of Dante’s Divine Comedy by a band of anonymous Italians.

“As a concept, it’s pretty interesting: turning Dante’s words (in their original Florentine vernacular) into relentless song-sized chunks furious blackened death metal. If you’re short on time, the takeaway is: listen to this if that idea sounds good to you. Don’t if it doesn’t.” [. . .]     –User “Samtropy”, The Metal Archives, June 8th, 2020 (retrieved November 29, 2021)

The full text of this archival review is available here.

A music video for one of the songs (“Gerione”), as well as other videos from the band, can be found here.

See our post about another metal adaptation of the Inferno here.

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2016, Albums, Bands, Death Metal, Inferno, Italian Bands, Italy, Limbo, Metal, Music

Antonio Gramsci, Quaderni del carcere (1929-1935)

November 28, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

Scholars Marco Grimaldi and Milena Russo have argued that Dante’s works—especially his depiction of Cavalcante de’ Cavalcanti in Inferno 10—played pivotal role in the political philosophy of Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Grimaldi and Russo gathered Gramsci’s Dante-related works in their edited collection Il canto decimo dell’inferno e altri scritti su Dante, published by Castelvecchi in 2021, the year of the seventh centenary of Dante’s death.

From the publisher’s website: “Dante è al centro degli interessi di Gramsci fin dall’inizio della scrittura dei Quaderni del carcere. La Commedia è uno dei libri richiesti subito dopo l’arresto; è dantesco uno degli «argomenti principali»; Dante è spesso associato a Machiavelli come rappresentante della corrente laica della letteratura italiana; la penultima nota è una riflessione sulla «quistione della lingua» a partire dal De vulgari. Ma all’interno dell’opera di Gramsci è possibile individuare un nucleo più definito che ruota attorno al canto decimo dell’Inferno e a Cavalcante Cavalcanti, padre di Guido, che prende avvio da uno scritto del 1918 e si concretizza in una sezione del Quaderno IV e in un gruppo di lettere. In tutte queste pagine – che qui si raccolgono – Gramsci usa Dante per riflettere su alcuni dei temi fondamentali dei Quaderni: il rapporto tra poesia e struttura, il ruolo degli intellettuali, la ‘popolarità’ della letteratura italiana.”   —Castelvecchi Editore

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 1929, 1935, 2021, 700th anniversary, Europe, Italian, Italian Politics, Italy, Marxism, Philosophy, Political Commentary, Political Leaders, Politics, Prison

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