La Dolce Vita describe intrusive photographers. As to the origin of the character's name itself, Fellini scholar Peter Bondanella argues that although "it is indeed an Italian family name, the word is probably a corruption of the word "papataceo", a large and bothersome mosquito. Ennio Flaiano, the film's co-screenwriter and creator of Paparazzo, reports that he took the name from a character in a novel by George Gissing." Gissing's character, Signor Paparazzo, is found in his travel book, "By the Ionian Sea" (1901). Marcello is a journalist in Rome during the late 1950s who covers tabloid news of movie stars, religious visions and
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