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 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