Dante Alighieri - Finestre sull'Arte

Dante mountaineer, in Valseriana a reading-show brings to life the climb to Earthly Paradise

On Saturday, April 29, 2023, a reading-performance dedicated to the Supreme Poet will be held in Clusone (Bergamo) at 4 p.m., accompanying participants in the event titled Dante the Mountaineer to the Shrine of the Holy Trinity on Colle Crosio. The ...
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Dante's Train returns. From Florence to Ravenna in a day on a historic train

The historic Centoporte train made available by the Fondazione FS Italiane that departs from Florence and arrives in Ravenna and then returns to the Tuscan capital will run on the rails again this 2023: in fact, after last year's success with the pub...
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Rai Cinema launches free game inspired by The Divine Comedy, to step into Dante's shoes

Ahead of Dantedì, the national day dedicated to Dante Alighieri celebrated on March 25, Rai Cinema presents a multiplatform project dedicated to the Divine Comedy. Dante's universe will be the protagonist of an innovative narrative declined in...
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The oldest Neapolitan Divine Comedy: Codex CF 2.16 of the Girolamini Library

Preserved at the Biblioteca Statale Oratoriana dei Girolamini in Naples is what is believed to be the oldest example of Dante Alighieri 's Commedia circulating in the Neapolitan city that has come down to us. It is a work presumably executed in the 1...
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BreraPLUS+ takes to theaters for the first time with a film on Dante and Napoleon

On the occasion of the celebrations of the seven hundredth anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri and the two hundredth anniversary of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte, the online channel of the Brera Art Gallery BreraPLUS+ presents on September ...
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Cantica21, the contemporary art exhibition dedicated to Dante Alighieri, stops in Paris

From April 14 to May 11, 2022, the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris is hosting another stop on the international tour of the exhibition Cantica21. Dante Alighieri and the Italian Artists, exhibiting five works dedicated to Dante Alighieri. The sci...
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On Rai5 a journey into the Inferno of Bosch and Dante.

In the new installment of Art Night to be aired in its Rai premiere on Friday, Jan. 21, on Rai5 at 9:15 p.m., Neri Marcorè will take viewers on a Journey to Hell, between the one imagined by Hieronymus Bosch to the one that sprang from Dante's...
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Dante is Pop. At the Ravenna Mar, the popular fortunes of Dante from the 14th century to the present.

Can a figure like Dante Alighieri who lived between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and passed away a full seven hundred years ago be considered pop? This is what the exhibition running until January 9, 2022 at the MAR in Ravenna, entitled Un...
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