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Riccardo Bruscagli
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Riccardo Bruscagli is professor emeritus of Italian literature at the University of Florence. He is an expert in Italian chivalric romances and Renaissance literature, and has lectured at a number of internationally renowned universities in the US. Most recently, he has teamed up with documentary filmmaker Ric Burns to write and produce a PBS documentary on Dante Alighieri and The Divine Comedy.
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6.0The riveting life and times of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) and his soaring masterpiece "The Divine Comedy" – one of the greatest achievements in the history of Western literature.
Dante: Inferno to Paradise
2024
NRThe Infernal journey through the first part of the afterlife, Hell, begins in a dark forest where Dante is threatened by three wild beasts. He's rescued by his hero Virgil at Beatrice's request. Virgil guides and protects Dante on his dark journey descending circle-by-circle and their subdivisions to the center of the Earth where Lucifer resides, and out into Purgatory.
Dante's Inferni
2025