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3 unusual facts about La Vita Nuova


Danielle de Niese

Ridley Scott's 2001 film Hannibal features a scene from Dante's La Vita Nuova; in it, de Niese sings as the character Beatrice the song "Vide Cor Meum" by Patrick Cassidy.

Nestore Leoni

Cavaliere Civelli commissioned from him covers for his edition of La Vita Nuova by Dante, which he decorated on parchment, in a style from the 1500s, reproducted with chromolithography.

Vita Nuova Holdings

The name of the company continues the association with Dante Alighieri, begun with the choice of Inferno, at Bell Labs, as a name for the operating system: La Vita Nuova, meaning "The New Life" in Italian, is the title of an early work by Dante.



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Franz Tscherne

With the Munich Philharmonic he was the narrator in the concert performance of Lortzing’s opera Tsar and Carpenter conducted by Leopold Hager and under maestro Marcello Viotti he recited Dante in Wolf Ferrari’s La vita nuova.