La Dolce Vita teenage "Umbrian angel") were shot on location at Passo Oscuro, a small resort town situated on the Italian coast 30 kilometers from Rome. Fellini scrapped a major sequence that would have involved the relationship of Marcello with Dolores, an older writer living in a tower, to be played by 1930s Academy Award-winning actress Luise Rainer. If the director’s dealings with Rainer "who used to involve Fellini in futile discussion" were problematic, biographer Kezich argues that while rewriting the screenplay, the Dolores character grew "hyperbolic" and Fellini decided to jettison "the entire story line." The scene in the Trevi Fountain was
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