10 new questions about Dante Alighieri,while in exile in Romagna,#digitalstorytelling

Castelnuovo Village model and relief map.

by Laura Vestrucci

The new #digitalstorytelling coming soon. It will be set in NewCastle. You’ll meet Dante Alighieri, the Supreme poet, in Newcastle , the historical village on the hills near Forlì and not so far from Rimini.

10 new questions about the “Supreme Poet” Dante Alighieri. 1) Do you know Dante Alighieri and his Divine Comedy? 2) Do you know he was condemned to perpetual exile from Florence and he dead in Ravenna? 3) Do you know he wrote the Divine Comedy in Romagna, where he travelled, while in exile, from Appennine to the Adriatic cost? 4) Do you know the Canto V of Dante’s Inferno and the story of two lovers Paolo Malatesta and Francesca Da Polenta (called da Rimini)? 5) What do you know about their adultery?

6) Do you know where and when Dante Alighieri listened about their story?

7) Do you listened or read something about Paolo Malatesta’s signory and his empowerment between the two castles called G(h)iaggiolo and Castelnuovo [i-e Newcastle] not so far from Rimini and so near Forlì?

8) Do you think Paolo Malatesta was really killed by his brother John Malatesta called “Gianciotto” because of the flagrant adultery with Francesca?

9) Do you know the Francesca’s daughter called Concordia Malatesta, was maybe 7 years old in the time of her mother murder?

10) What do you know about Concordia Malatesta?

We’ll give you new answers to these 10 questions and to many others in the new #digitalstorytelling. Work in progress.

Originally published at concordanze.wordpress.com on April 6, 2014.