March 25th is Dante Day (Dantedì).
The Embassy’s event to mark the recurrence was streamed and is available for viewing on YouTube.
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Greta Scacchi and Luigi Di Fiore‘s renditions of Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise.
Musicians from Accademia Teatro alla Scala di Milano will accompany the readings.
Rare books of University College London Special Collections will provide a visual interpretation of the poetry.
Presented by Zeinab Badawi
Programme
Prelude
Franz Joseph Haydn, the seven last words of Christ on the Cross, Hob:XX:2 – The Earthquake
A) Inferno, canto 3, vv 1-96
Music
Ludwig van Beethoven, string quartet n. 6 in si bemolle maggiore, op. 18 – Adagio “La Malinconia”
Books
1. Dante, La commedia
(Venice: Windelin of Speyer, 1477)
2. Dante, Dante’s Inferno
Translated into English by the Reverend Henry Francis Cary
Illustrated by Gustave Doré
(London: Cassell, [no date – late 1800s])
B) Purgatory, canto 16, vv 55-84; 103-129
Music
Giacomo Puccini, Crisantemi, Elegia for string quartet SC 65
Books
1. Dante, La commedia
(Venice: Pietro di Piasi, 1491)
First fully illustrated edition of the Divina Commedia to appear in print.
2. Ein Dantekranz aus hundert Blättern
Translated in German by Paul Pochhammer
Illustrated by Franz Stassen
(Berlin: Grote, 1906)
C) Paradise, canto 21, versi 1-69
Music
Ludwig van Beethoven, string quartet n 16 in fa maggiore op. 135 – Lento assai, cantante e tranquillo
Books
1. Dante, La comedia
(Venice: Marcolini, 1544)
With first new commentary by Vellutello
2. John Flaxman, Compositions from the divine poem of Dante Alighieri
(London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1807)
With the generous support of:
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