Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture
How The World Became The Bomb—a post-rock musician from Palermo, Italy—released an album in 2017 titled Beauty Awakens the Soul to Act. The title refers to the verse “tosto che dal piacere in atto è desto” (Purgatorio 18.21).
Listen to the album on Bandcamp (retrieved on October 24, 2022).
“Mr. Parks lives in Milan, where he runs a postgraduate translation program at Istituto Universitario di Lingue Moderne. Living here saves him from the hellish predawn 100-mile commute from Verona, a Dante-esque daily journey that he writes about at the outset of Italian Ways.” –Rachel Donadio, The New York Times, June 7, 2013
See Tim Parks’ book, Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo (NY: W. W. Norton, 2013)
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Coggeshall, Elizabeth, and Arielle Saiber, eds. Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture. Website. Access date.
