ShoppingBlog.com (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Electronic Arts has reinterpreted Dante Alighieri's epic poem as a video game. The plot description from the game's website has the hero, Dante, attempting to rescue the soul of his lover from Hell. Inspired by the real Dante Alighieri, but adapted for a new generation and a new medium, the hero of the game is a soldier who defies death and fights for love against...
Webcastr (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The fourteenth century literary masterpiece by Italian poet Dante Alighieri has been reinterpreted as a graphic slasher video game which will come out in 2010.
asisaid by Timothy R. Butler (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of the most beautiful works ever written is Dante Alighieri's la Divina Commedia. As I was plundering bits of the Inferno for a sermon illustration, I soaked up the end of that cantica for the first time in too long. It finds Dante and his poet-guide, Virgil, in the very pit of hell. And there Virgil points Dante to a dark space where there is a hole carved by a little...
Solange Lopes (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
... sua labbia si mova Uno spirito soave pien d'amore, Che va dicendo a l'anima: "Sospira." -Dante Alighieri And for those of us who do not read fluently in Italian, here is the English translation taken from the book Introduction to Italian Poetry by Luciano Rebay; "So gentle and virtuous she appears" So gentle and virtuous she appears, My lady, when greeting other...
What's on in Barcelona (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
... municipal parks and gardens, or forget to tip your hat to the bronze statue of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri in the Plaça de Dante. 8. Revel in the Raval Like Paris, Barcelona has a literary flavour . In this city, many writers have been inspired by the lower Raval, generally referred to as the Barrio Chino, a name coined by an American journalist due to its underworld...
