Dante: Inferno to Paradise

Last updated
Dante: Inferno to Paradise
Written by
  • Ric Burns
  • Riccardo Bruscagli
Directed by Ric Burns
Music by Brian Keane
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes2
Production
Executive producers
Producers
  • Leigh Howell
  • Bonnie Lafave
Cinematography
  • Buddy Squires
  • Tim Cragg
Editors
  • Omry Maoz
  • Margaret Metzger
  • Li-Shin Yu
  • Parker Dixon
  • Tom Patterson
  • Kent Bassett
  • Brandon Holmes
Production company
Original release
Network PBS
ReleaseMarch 18 (2024-03-18) 
March 19, 2024 (2024-03-19)

Dante: Inferno to Paradise is a 2024 American two-part documentary directed by Ric Burns, following the life and career of Dante Alighieri, and his poem Divine Comedy . It was broadcast by PBS on March 18 and 19, 2024.

Contents

Premise

Explores the life and career of Dante Alighieri and his poem Divine Comedy . [1] Interviews include Riccardo Bruscagli, Teodolinda Barolini, Lino Pertile, Elena Lombardi, Heather Webb, Catherine Adoyo, Claudio Giunta, Theodore Cachey, Manuele Gragnolati, Giuseppe Ledda, Timothy Verdon and Guy Raff. [2]

Episodes

No.TitleDirected byOriginal air date
1"Episode One" Ric Burns March 18, 2024 (2024-03-18)

Dante has escaped his home city of Florence. In 1306, as a 41-year-old exile at a castle in Lunigiana, he begins the work that would take the remainder of his life to finish.

Brunetto Latini was Dante's teacher.
2"Episode Two"Ric BurnsMarch 19, 2024 (2024-03-19)

Production

In April 2021, it was announced Ric Burns was in production on a documentary revolving around Dante Alighieri. [3]

Reception

Stephen Smith of The Wall Street Journal gave the film a positive review writing: "Beautifully executed and collaborative in spirit." [4]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dante Alighieri</span> Italian poet, writer, and philosopher (1265–1321)

Dante Alighieri, widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.

<i>Divine Comedy</i> Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed around 1321, shortly before the author's death. It is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of Western literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval worldview as it existed in the Western Church by the 14th century. It helped establish the Tuscan language, in which it is written, as the standardized Italian language. It is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.

Dante's Inferno is the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy.

Allen Mandelbaum was an American professor of literature and the humanities, poet, and translator from Classical Greek, Latin and Italian. His translations of classic works gained him numerous awards in Italy and the United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Beatrice Portinari</span> Dantes muse (1265-1290)

Beatrice "Bice" di Folco Portinari was an Italian woman who has been commonly identified as the principal inspiration for Dante Alighieri's Vita Nuova, and is also identified with the Beatrice who acts as his guide in the last book of his narrative poem the Divine Comedy, Paradiso, and during the conclusion of the preceding Purgatorio. In the Comedy, Beatrice symbolises divine grace and theology.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Malebolge</span> Eighth circle of hell in Dantes Inferno

In Dante Alighieri's Inferno, part of the Divine Comedy, Malebolge or Fraud is the eighth circle of Hell. It is a large, funnel-shaped cavern, itself divided into ten concentric circular trenches or ditches, each called a bolgia. Long causeway bridges run from the outer circumference of Malebolge to its center, pictured as spokes on a wheel. At the center of Malebolge is the ninth and final circle of hell, known as Cocytus.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Francesca da Rimini</span> Italian noblewoman

Francesca da Rimini or Francesca da Polenta was an Italian medieval noblewoman of Ravenna, who was murdered by her husband, Giovanni Malatesta, upon his discovery of her affair with his brother, Paolo Malatesta. She was a contemporary of Dante Alighieri, who portrayed her as a character in the Divine Comedy.

<i>Divine Comedy</i> in popular culture

The Divine Comedy has been a source of inspiration for artists, musicians, and authors since its appearance in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. Works are included here if they have been described by scholars as relating substantially in their structure or content to the Divine Comedy.

Dis (<i>Divine Comedy</i>) City in Dantes Inferno

In Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, the City of Dis encompasses the sixth through the ninth circles of Hell.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ric Burns</span> American filmmaker

Ric Burns is an American documentary filmmaker and writer. He has written, directed and produced historical documentaries since the 1990s, beginning with his collaboration on the celebrated PBS series The Civil War (1990), which he produced with his older brother Ken Burns and wrote with Geoffrey Ward.

<i>Dantes Inferno</i> (video game) 2010 video game

Dante's Inferno is a 2010 action-adventure game developed by Visceral Games and published by Electronic Arts. The game was released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PlayStation Portable in February 2010. The PlayStation Portable version was developed by Artificial Mind and Movement.

<i>Dante XXI</i> 2006 studio album by Sepultura

Dante XXI is the tenth studio album by the Brazilian metal band Sepultura, released in 2006 through SPV Records. It is a concept album based on the three sections of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy; Inferno (hell), Purgatorio (purgatory) and Paradiso (paradise). This is the last album to feature Igor Cavalera on drums.

<i>Inferno</i> (Tangerine Dream album) 2002 live album with studio elements by Tangerine Dream

Inferno is the seventy-third release and twelfth live album by German electronic group Tangerine Dream. It is the first live album to feature new compositions since 220 Volt Live (1993). The lyrical content is based on the first part of the Italian narrative poem Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. Inferno is the first album to feature percussionist Iris Camaa who remained with the group until 2014.

Ghisolabella Caccianemico, also known as Ghislabella or Ghisolabella dei Caccianemici, was a noblewoman from a prominent Guelph family from Bologna. She was married to Niccolò dei Fontana, a nobleman from Ferrara, but she is primarily known for having been sold into prostitution to Obizzo II d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara by her brother, Venedico Caccianemico. Ghisolabella's story was famously included by Dante Alighieri in his poem, the Divine Comedy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">First circle of hell</span> As depicted in Dantes Inferno

The first circle of hell is depicted in Dante Alighieri's 14th-century poem Inferno, the first part of the Divine Comedy. Inferno tells the story of Dante's journey through a vision of hell ordered into nine circles corresponding to classifications of sin. The first circle is Limbo, the space reserved for those souls who died before baptism and for those who hail from non-Christian cultures. They live eternally in a castle set on a verdant landscape, but forever removed from heaven.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Robert Hollander</span> American scholar and translator (1933–2021)

Robert B. Hollander Jr. was an American academic and translator, most widely known for his work on Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Boccaccio. He was described by a department chair at Princeton University as "a pioneer in the creation of digital resources for the study of literature" for his work on the electronic Princeton and Dartmouth Dante projects. In 2008, he and his wife, Jean Hollander, co-received a Gold Florin award from the City of Florence for their English translation of Dante's Divine Comedy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dante Garden</span> Sculpture garden in Toronto

The Dante Garden or the Dante Sculpture Park is a sculpture garden located on the campus of the University of St. Michael's College in Toronto, Ontario. The garden consists of 100 bronze page-like relief sculptures created by Canadian sculptor Timothy Schmalz, making him the first artist to represent the full poem through sculpture. Each of the sculptures depict a single scene from each canto of Dante Alghieri's Divine Comedy, creating an "open-air book". In the center of the garden is a life-sized sculpture of Dante hunched over, appearing to write the first canto which he holds in his hand.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jean Hollander</span> American poet and translator (1928–2019)

Jean Hollander was a poet, translator and teacher. Together with her husband Robert Hollander she published a verse translation of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, for which she was awarded the Gold Medal for Dante Translation from the City of Florence. She has taught literature and writing at Princeton University, Brooklyn College, Columbia University, where she did her graduate work, and The College of New Jersey, where she was director of the annual Writers’ Conference for twenty-three years. She was poetry editor and columnist at the Princeton Packet and has given over a hundred readings of her own poetry, as well as workshops at universities, libraries, bookstores, and poetry events, such as the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, the University of Dallas, the Poetry Society of America, Barnes & Noble Reading Series in Manhattan and Princeton, Station WPFW for Voice of America, Harvard University, Poets House and others. She has published over three hundred poems in hundreds of magazines and anthologies, such as American Scholar, Asheville Poetry Review, Cumberland Poetry Review, Literary Review, National Review, Nimrod, Pegasus, Poem, Sewanee Review, Southern Humanities Review and others.

References

  1. "Dante". PBS International . Retrieved March 17, 2024.
  2. "Dante: Inferno to Paradise". ThinkTV . Retrieved March 17, 2024.
  3. Galuppo, Mia (April 8, 2021). "Ken and Ric Burns on Ernest Hemingway, Oliver Sacks and Their Working Relationship". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved March 17, 2024.
  4. Smith, Stephen (March 16, 2024). "'Dante: Inferno to Paradise' Review: A Divine PBS Documentary". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved March 17, 2024.