Jacopo Valentini—Concerning Dante

Over the centuries, the cultural significance of Dante’s Divine Comedy has gone beyond the purely literary sphere, influencing various aspects of society thanks also to a vast tradition of visual transpositions. Jacopo Valentini—Concerning Dante is a meta-project on the relationship between literary text and landscape, and on the evocative power of the Divine Comedy that, over the centuries, has shaped the perception of places to the point of characterizing them as ‘Dantean.’ Jacopo Valentini investigated a series of places in Italy mentioned by the Supreme Poet and, by relating them to other landscapes and still lifes with the same visual potency, created analogies for a Dantean geography. Valentini’s visual narrative unfolds around three symbolic places and three famous illustrations from Dante’s text, interweaving the Phlegrean Fields, the Pietra di Bismantova, and the Delta of the River Po—interpreted as the gateways to Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise—with the imagery of Federico Zuccari, Alberto Martini, and Robert Rauschenberg.

Jacopo Valentini—Concerning Dante

Photographer: Jacopo Valentini
Design: Federico Barbon
Editor: Humboldt Books
Languages: Italian, English
Volume: 92 pages
Format: 20 × 30 cm
Workmanship: paperback
Release: 2021
ISBN: 9788899385910
€ 19.–
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