{"id":28412,"date":"2013-09-13T16:54:54","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T20:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=28412"},"modified":"2013-09-13T17:03:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T21:03:59","slug":"700th-anniversary-of-the-divine-comedy-dantes-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/700th-anniversary-of-the-divine-comedy-dantes-masterpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"700th anniversary of the Divine Comedy, Dante&#8217;s masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/commedia-medal.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28413 alignleft\" alt=\"commedia medal\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/commedia-medal.jpeg\" width=\"220\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a>Truly one of the world&#8217;s great texts is the <em><strong>Divine Comedy<\/strong><\/em> by Dante. Next year and in subsequent years, we&#8217;ll hear about the honoring of Dante by bestowing annual award for artistic genius dealing with<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Best Digitally-Produced Rendition of Any Aspect of Dante&#8217;s Divine Comedy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first recipient of the <em>Commedia Medal<\/em> will be announced on 1 December 2014 and it will be award annually until 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The image of the award is posted here. It&#8217;s the creation of Dom Gregory Havill, a Benedictine monk of Portsmouth Abbey and a teacher in the Portsmouth Abbey School.<\/p>\n<p>Dante published the <em>Inferno<\/em> in 1314, the <em>Purgatorio<\/em> in 1315 and the <em>Paradiso<\/em> in 1321. Dante died in 1321. What a terrific way to acknowledge cultural icon by having a Benedictine monk create an artistic piece for an award of excellence and beauty! Benedictines have always had their fingers (and their hearts and minds) in matters of faith, reason,and art to communicate the Divine Mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Interested in the competition, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicdistance.org\/digitaldante\/\"><strong>visit the website here<\/strong><\/a>. Dr Sebastian Mahfood is organizing the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truly one of the world&#8217;s great texts is the Divine Comedy by Dante. Next year and in subsequent years, we&#8217;ll hear about the honoring of Dante by bestowing annual award for artistic genius dealing with The Best Digitally-Produced Rendition of Any Aspect of Dante&#8217;s Divine Comedy The first recipient of the Commedia Medal will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/700th-anniversary-of-the-divine-comedy-dantes-masterpiece\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">700th anniversary of the Divine Comedy, Dante&#8217;s masterpiece<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,27,38],"tags":[31891,31892,1995],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28412"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28417,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28412\/revisions\/28417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}