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By idcrome Sorry for the absence eCoolers. We've had some IMPORTANT things to take care of here in the Compound over the past week or so and that's kept us from blogging as faithfully as we'd like. But, we're back and we're bad! So stay tuned for some Rome ultra-coolness over the course of the next few weeks. We're kicking off our Summer Coolfest with some sand sculptures from Jesolo Lido, a city near Venice on the east coast of the boot-shaped peninsula. Seems that Jesolo Lido has a thematic sand sculpture festival each year and that this summer they've asked a team of professional sand sculpture artists to illustrate Dante's Inferno (note to Compounders: possible alternative career). In particular, artists were asked to take their inspiration from verses 1-9 of Canto III of the Inferno , words that Dante reads as he stands at the edge of the world of the damned souls: Through me is the way into the woeful city; through me is the way into eterna...