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 to the Absolute, inspiring the integration of desire aroused by beauty with the longing of the soul for divine splendor. Referred to by Dante as his "libello", or "little book", "The New Life" is the first of two collections of verse written by Dante in his life. "La Vita Nuova" is a "prosimetrum", a piece containing both verse and prose, in the vein of Boethius' "Consolation of Philosophy". Dante used each "prosimetrum" as a means for combining poems written over periods of roughly ten years - "La Vita Nuova" contains his works from before 1283 to roughly 1293. The first