Word: alighieri
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Head recruiter for the Balilla in the U. S., charged Mr. Valenti, is one Professor Mario Giani, U. S. director of the Dante Alighieri Society, Government-supported Italian cultural and propaganda agency. Mr. Giani, whose office is in the headquarters of the Italian consulate in Manhattan, has as assistant recruiters, according to Mr. Valenti, Italian consuls, teachers in some U. S. colleges and public schools, pro-Fascist Catholic priests...
...Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was a poet, a Catholic and a Florentine. So is Biographer Papini: without that happy concatenation of coincidence, says he, a full understanding of Dante is impossible. But anybody can at least partly understand the few known facts about him. Though of gentle birth, his father was a moneylender. Like every upstanding Florentine Dante was an active citizen, fought for his town against Arezzo and Pisa. In the battle of Campaldino he admitted that "he experienced great fear." When the political pendulum swung the other way Dante was first banished from Florence, later condemned to death...
Announcement has been made of the Award of the prizes offered by the Societa Nazionale Dante Alighieri of Boston are Otto Gambacorta '35 and Anthony J. DeVito 1G as the two students who have most distinguished themselves this year in their study of Italian and by promoting here the interests of Italian culture...
...Paul Gustave Dore's monumental illustrations of the Bible and of the Inferno of Dante Alighieri gave a large part of the last generation a thoroughgoing picture of Heaven and Hell. Last week at the Petit Palais in Paris, a representative exhibition of his work marked the centenary of his birth. Born in Strasbourg, he never took drawing lessons, made fair pictures at 6, relying on an amazing photographic memory. From his versatile illustrations for Rabelais. Dante. Cervantes, Ariosto, La Fontaine, Dumas. Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, et al., he earned in 35 years of work...