Marcello Mastroianni uncredited extra in "Marionette" (1939) when he was fourteen, and made intermittent minor film appearances until landing his first big role in "Atto d'accusa" (1951). Within a decade he became a major international celebrity, starring in "Big Deal on Madonna Street" (1958); and in Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" opposite Anita Ekberg in 1960, where he played a disillusioned and self-loathing tabloid columnist who spends his days and nights exploring Rome's high society. Mastroianni followed "La Dolce Vita" with another signature role, that of a film director who, amidst self-doubt and troubled love affairs, finds himself in a creative block
La Vita Nuova the film, and is based on the sonnet "A ciascun'alma presa", in chapter 3 of "La Vita Nuova". Several lines from "La Vita Nuova "are heard being read from a cassette player in a zoo by the head zoo keeper in the 1982 film "Cat People". The author Allegra Goodman wrote a short story entitled "La Vita Nuova", published in the May 3, 2010 issue of "The New Yorker", in which Dante's words (in English) are interspersed throughout the piece. The final mission in the 2008 game "Devil May Cry 4", where protagonist Nero rescues his love Kyrie from the