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 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