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Hang on- cavalghieri nation rise?????

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we need a ship name for petrarca x boccaccio but petraccio sucks

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Versane uno per #francesco petrarca.

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Consiglio vivamente di fare binge watch di tutti i loro video su YouTube perché fanno spaccare IMO

Fate il monumento equestre a Donnarumma sì

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Netflix just announced their new show loosely inspired by the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, apparently he is a famous Italian poet if you don’t know him

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Guido Cavalcanti tries to cure his iron deficiency.

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by the way, Boccaccio is getting dragged by this Netflix show, yes. absolutely. I’m mad that one of the most important work of our literature has been reduced into an american “dolce vita” erotica dream.

but we have to remember how they treat their own literature, how they recently treated Shakespeare.

like okay. IT IS FUNNY TO INTERPRET THINGS yes, to joke on them, I’ve done the most out of pockets jokes here, so I’m guilty as charge, but I would also argue…to a certain extent (we don’t have to agree, so please don’t attack me). and also my silly memes on TUMBLR DOT COM cannot compare to multimillion hollywood’s productions.

just hear me out for a second, because I don’t think many people know this.

both the show "The Decameron" and the film starring Sidney Sweeney "Anyone But You" are described as LOOSELY INSPIRED by a literature work.

In fact, Sweeney’s film is based on the play “Much Ado About Nothing” written by William Shakespeare, who’s fame doesn’t need introductions.

now. The Decameron sort of sticks to the setting and it’s simply a 13-years-old-wattpad-fic version of the actual cornice (is not even the full work, not a novella is involved apparently). the real downside here is that they named the show after Boccaccio’s work. criminal. inoltre, la nostra letteratura è già più incline a cattive interpretazioni della loro (come eventi recenti dimostrano) e produzioni del genere non aiutano. La scelta del titolo è per me la cosa che aggrava maggiormente lo show.

but think about Shakespeare. what was that (I did see the film!). why. why. why. like it was so far form the actual thing that you couldn’t even tell. but at least the name wasn’t the exact same, which doesn’t immediately links the film and the literature work together. it already sets the film apart from “Much Ado About Nothing” and the difference between the two seems more justified.

they did Boccaccio dirty, but they have been doing the same with their writers.

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Boccaccio: “I want to give my work a university type of layout, I’ll have the text in two columns, because this is a serious text and I want to send the message across to people. those are not just silly stories.”

Netflix: some wet abs should do the job lol

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compilation of fucked up looking dante models for educational videos

beady eyed dante

old virgil with an afro + twink latino dante

(joking on the latino part)

also found this version with long hair and beard. he looks like jesus

WHATEVER THIS IS.

bonus:

thanks for coming to my Ted talk. will reblog if I find more

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i have to ask. leopardi and ranieri or dante and guido?

................... god. what a question. you can't just ask me that. you're pitting two icons against each other.

you know what. it's saturday. it's been one of those weeks... let's pass the italian literature yaoi around...

PROPAGANDA:

LEONIERI: early 19th century italy. one is the intellectual and poetic genius of the century, hell, perhaps one of the best literary and philosophical minds of the country's entire history, who on the other hand lived a life of sickness and disability which seriously impacted his daily relationships in society and his ability to gain romantic attention from women. the other is a young and handsome neapolitan fuckboy with (mediocre) literary aspirations. in the words of marcello d'orta:

loose translation: "ranieri could have hated leopardi, because that man of such miserable looks had the genius that he (who insisted on becoming a writer) lacked. and giacomo could have hated ranieri, handsome, confident, desired by women. instead they ended up loving each other, each seeing in the other what they wished to be themselves".

they would go on to live together for some seven years in naples, until leopardi's death in 1837, which allegedly happened in ranieri's very arms. their joint lives caused much scandal, rumour and ridicule at the time, per ranieri and leopardi's own accounts. leo's letters to ranieri are on another level of tenderness. (ranieri's letters to leo are nowhere to be found, they were probably destroyed by antonio himself, we'll get there in a second). as leopardi's health and sight worsened, ranieri most likely wrote down his last poems under his dictation. in a letter to fanny targioni tozzetti, ranieri even recounts trying to kiss giacomo back to life as he had just died in his arms.

many years after his death ranieri wrote the infamous sette anni di sodalizio, technically supposed to be an account of his relationship with leopardi, but which was found to have many inconsistencies and most importantly intimate, defaming details about giacomo's private life and sometimes straight up lies designed to make antonio and his sister paolina look better, while degrading giacomo in the process. this work was written at the end of the 19th century, as ranieri had reached a role of some importance in the newborn italian republic, and as such he needed to build and mantain his reputation very carefully, he certainly couldn't have fed the rumours about their much gossiped about relationship, so he constructed a very specific narrative about himself. this might also be why his own part of his correspondance with leopardi is nowhere to be found... might have had some incriminating evidence...

so, ranieri's account isn't always reliable, but i dare submitting a final piece of propaganda, a quote from a letter of his explaining how leopardi's casket had to be moved (please do not ask me the specifics, there's so much lore to leopardi's burial or lack thereof that i can't get into here, i recommend All'apparir del vero. Il mistero della conversione e della morte di Giacomo Leopardi by marcello d'orta if you'd like to learn more):

"antonio ranieri carries the casket in his own arms from the underground into the church, when he gets curious to open it. in a slightly later letter to de sinner, he reveals to have contemplated "mesmerized, for hours, the skeleton of the man i loved and admired the most on the earth"."

now, again, ranieri was a piece of shit master liar and probably batshit mentally insane in his later years, and we have no way to prove this actually happened, but to me even the possibility that he came up with something like this is proof of a psychosexual morbid obsession he had with leopardi. completely apeshit thing to say. makes me very normal.

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CAVALGHIERI: we're in florence in the last couple decades of the 13th century. if we consider dante alighieri's account in his vita nova as an accurate reconstruction, he and nobleman, poet, philosopher guido cavalcanti start their relationship when guido responds to dante's opening poem about the divinely inspired dream he had after being greeted by his beloved, beatrice, offering his interpretation. dante and guido were the key figures of the dolce stil novo poetic movement, love poetry detailing the extraordinary effects of a feeling reserved for the most noble of heart. guido was almost a decade older than dante and was instrumental to his development as a person, poet, intellectual, to the point of having the vita nova dedicated to him, defined by dante as the first (as in, most important) of his friends.

then, in the 1290s, something shifts. they start being distant, for two main reasons. on one hand, poetical and philosophical divergences. guido's poetry conceptualized love as a destructive force for the self, an annihilation of the poet's person, where god is nowhere to be found: he was indeed, like his father, an epicurean philosopher, which essentially means atheist. dante, on the contrary, was all about love being a divinely inspired force connecting the poet to god and truth and goodness through the woman, in his case beatrice, transfigured in a personification of theology itself. guido was very intense about the elitist aspect of the dolce stil novo, about his exclusivity, about its rules, and dante's pursuit of his own direction pissed him off, beatrice pissed him off, dante's experimentation with comical poetry pissed him off severely, and he made sure dante knew about it.

on the other hand, political reasons: dante had gotten into florence politics through a new system which excluded nobility unless they took part in a guild, which dante did, but it was a highly affronting and controversial measure to nobles, which guido was, and as the noble he was he tended to resort to physical violence, contrary to dante who always pursued a moderate peacekeeping policy.

point is, it all goes to shit in 1300, when dante, at the time at the highest political role in the city, co-signed an exile sentence for nobles of different factions as punishment for the violent disorders they caused, among which was none other than guido cavalcanti himself. who is exiled in june 1300 and comes back in august, sick with malaria, just to die in florence.

while dante almost never explicitly, and if so only fleetingly, refers to guido in the rest of his works, he was never normal about guido ever again. imagine having to live with the guilt of having killed your mentor, your teacher, your best friend, all to pursue an ideal of peace for a city that will bite him back in the ass and resort to war all over again.

dante will reference guido verses in the divine comedy, dante will fabricate an insane dialogue with guido's father in inferno canto 10 where his character self insists guido is still alive when guido's death is haunting the entire dialogue, dante will (probably) refer to guido's role in his life through the character of vergil, dante will try to reconstruct that bond with cino da pistoia and fail, dante will literally go insane. he was insane. he wasn't normal. guido never died he just became dante alighieri's personal ghost.

now go, fight to the death. you have one week.

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happy birthday mf

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I've been meaning to draw this for, I'm not even kidding, YEARS. Giving into my deepest demons, I've got an unhealthy obsession for Inferno and I just think it would be very in character and plot-relevant for Zag and Dante to just run into each other LOL

Ack, I forgor to tag all my hades mockups ^^; here's others if yall are curious: (...iliad/myth oc linked here) (linked here) (and here) (one more) (oops one more sorry)

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COLLAB OF THE CENTURY!!! Triple Baka but its the mcs of the Divine Comedy thank you beautiful @drudolart and @ancient4liens

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Virgil divine comedy fanart but make it slightly funky (I discovered the chromatic aberration feature on procreate) (it is so much better than on clip studio)

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ANCIENT RUS DIVINE COMEDY AU :DDD

dont ask me why i was just feeling like it (couldnt make any of their heights match)

Dante's name is Dusia or Dania (yes the first one sounds like dussy-) and Guido is Glieb :D

Virgil is Vavila (probably shouldve made him old but i need a gusliar bard twink from ancient rus) and Beatrice is Viera

Gemma is Euhienia + bonus little dantino (dushen'ka :з) ina big ass papaha.

of course dante would wear a freaking papaha.

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virgil's little face on the old one is so well that i simply cant do anything as good