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Dante: Inferno to Paradise

Dante: Inferno to Paradise, by acclaimed filmmaker Ric Burns, explores the 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.

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Part Two: Resurrection

Season 1 Episode 2 | 113m 41s | CC

Explore Dante’s experience in exile, and his completion of the last two parts of the "Comedy," shortly before his death in Ravennain 1321. Interweaving soaring scenes drawn from Purgatory and Paradise, the film goes on to explore the afterlife and literary and cultural fate of Dante’s masterpiece from the time of his death down to today.

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Funding for DANTE: INFERNO TO PARADISE was provided by Rosalind P. Walter; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; the George Jenkins Foundation; Dana and Virginia Randt; Artemis Rising Foundation; Viking; the Francesco and Mary Giambelli Foundation; Lori Anne Lo Presti; Sheena and Vijay Vaidyanathan; Patricia and Marshall Geller; and Paolo Miseria.

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