Lucas Entertainment and Michael Musto. In 2006, the studio released "Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita Parts 1 & 2", a gay pornographic remake of the 1960 Fellini classic "La Dolce Vita". At a budget of $250,000, the studio contends it is the most expensive gay pornographic film ever made. The film won a record fourteen awards at the 2007 GayVN Awards, winning in every category in which it was nominated. In February 2007, International Media Films, Inc., which owns the rights to Fellini's "La Dolce Vita", filed suit against Lucas (as Andrei Treivas Bregman), Lucas Entertainment, Inc., and Lucas Distribution, Inc. for
La Vita Nuova Beatrice at Ponte Santa Trinita" (1883) is inspired by "La Vita Nuova", as was Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "The Salutation of Beatrice" (1859). Rossetti translated the work into English in 1848 and used the character name "Mona Vanna" from it as a title for his 1866 painting "Monna Vanna". "La vita nuova" is a 1902 cantata based on the text by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Vladimir Martynov's 2003 opera "Vita Nuova" premiered in the U.S. on February 28, 2009 at the Alice Tully Hall, performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. On p. 99 of D. M. Thomas's "The White