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Vortex by Stige

January 17, 2023 By Cory Balon

vortex-stige“Secondo demo per questi Stige, death/thrash band da Taranto. Il quintetto ha finalmente assestato la sua line-up dove svariati cambi. . .  Infatti le quattro tracce presenti in questo ‘Vortex’, sono sì furiose e violente, ma peccano pesantemente sul versante originalità. Gli Stige si rifanno palesemente alla scena americana, sia nel riffing serrato che nei solos sparati a duemila all’ora ( come gli Slayer insegnano ). Dentro di loro serpeggia anche una vena hardcore, decantata a pieni polmoni dal singer Gianfranco Liuzzi, il quale modula la propria voce su uno screaming acidulo e tiratissimo per quasi tutta la durata delle canzoni; ogni tanto Liuzzi tira fuori degli acuti Halfordiani, tecnicamente validi, ma che cozzano con il suo cantare ” classico “. Durante l’ascolto dei brani emerge anche una discreta cura nell’inserire linee altamente melodiche, questo grazie ai due chitarristi, Marcello Bruno ed Emanuele Giummarra, particolare che conferisce un pizzico di ariosità a canzoni comunque potenti e quadrate.”    –Andrea Pizzini, metal.it

The 2005 demo Vortex by Italian band Stige uses the illustration Styx-Philippo Argenti by illustrator Gustave Doré.

Find the album here.

Find the illustration here.

Contributed by Gianluca Giuseffi Grippa. 

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2006, Album Art, Albums, Canto 8, Gustave Doré, Illustrations, Italian Bands, Italy, Metal, River Styx, Styx, Tuscany

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

700 year old fresco depicts Dante sent to burn in Hell

February 17, 2022 By Hannah Raisner, FSU '25

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“Scholars believe they have found a portrayal of Dante being sent to burn in the fires of damnation, hidden in the corner of a 700-year-old fresco in Tuscany.

They say the figure of a man with an aquiline nose and a distinctive red beret bears a striking resemblance to known portraits of Dante, who is revered in Italy as much as Shakespeare is esteemed in Britain.

The demonisation of the poet may have been motivated by the bad relations he had with the Church.

The fresco was painted between 1336 and 1342 by an artist named Bonamico Buffalmacco and adorns a wall of the Camposanto, a historic cemetery in Pisa which is close to the famous Leaning Tower.”    — Nick Squires, The Telegraph, February 1, 2022.

Read the full article here.

Categories: Places, Visual Art & Architecture, Written Word
Tagged with: Art History, Dante in Hell, Frescos, Hell, Italy, The Telegraph, Tuscany

“Dario Cecchini on Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’”

April 1, 2021 By Laura Chatellier, FSU '23

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“For many visitors to Tuscany, their first taste of Dante’s verses came with their first taste of bistecca alla Fiorentina, crowded around the boisterous restaurant tables of local butcher Dario Cecchini. In Panzano in Chianti, surrounded by art and memory, Dario recites Dante by heart, towering over the modest shop display of carefully chosen cuts. There is a verse for every moment, from love to crisis, and the energy that comes with a celebration of life.” [. . .]    –Marisa Garreffa, The Florentine, March 24, 2021.

Categories: Dining & Leisure
Tagged with: 2021, Covid-19, Crisis, Dining, Food, Italian, Italy, Meat, Restaurants, Tuscany

Suzanne Branciforte, “Dante’s March”

March 30, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“[. . .] According to most scholars, Dante is referring to Vernaccia delle Cinque Terre from Liguria (sorry, Tuscans from San Gimignano!) Perhaps he became familiar with this wine during his stay in Lunigiana, in the first part of his exile from Florence.

“It is in that very same Lunigiana where Dante lived that Cantine Lvnae di Bosoni created a spectacular red wine in Dante’s honor. Verba Dantis, a blend of two native Ligurian grape varieties, Massaretta and Pollera Nera, is a full-bodied red wine reminding us of Dante’s intense and passionate personality.”   –From “Dante’s March,” Suzanne Branciforte’s Italian Grapevine (March 30, 2021)

Read the full blogpost, which lists a number of wines commissioned to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the sommo poeta‘s death, here.

Contributed by Suzanne Branciforte

Categories: Consumer Goods, Digital Media, Dining & Leisure, Written Word
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Blogposts, Italy, Liguria, Travel, Tuscany, Wines

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