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Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In this documentary the work of Dante Alighieri is explored: his cultural and religious influences of the time period, his innovations in the world of literature, and how he impacted other artists, sculptors and writers. Martin Hossick explains how he established individualism and morality for every man in a period when only rulers and religious figures mattered.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
¿Dante ha muerto realmente a causa de la malaria, como todos creen en Rávena? ¿O bien alquien tenía motivos para desear su muerte y, con ella, la desaparición de un secreto? Atormentados por esta duda, la hija del poeta, sor Beatrice, un extemplario llamado Bernard y un médico, Giovanni da Lucca, inician una doble investigación para aclarar cuanto ha sucedido"--P. [4] of cover.
Pub. Date
[2005], c1993
Language
English
Description
This ambitious program, produced by the award-winning film director Peter Greenaway and internationally known artist Tom Phillips, brings to life the first eight cantos of Dante's Inferno. Featuring a cast that includes Sir John Gielgud as Virgil, the cantos are not conventionally dramatized. Instead, the feeling of Dante's poem is conveyed through juxtaposed imagery that conjures up a contemporary vision of hell, and its meaning is deciphered by...
Pub. Date
[2006], c2006
Language
English
Description
Drawing upon the insights of numerous international scholars-and illustrating crucial passages with stunning animation sequences-this program guides viewers through the Inferno of Dante's Divine Comedy. With detailed analysis of the poet's descent into Hell and navigation through its various levels, the program interprets Dante's motives for embarking on such a journey, explains his relationship and interaction with both Virgil and Beatrice, and describes...
Author
Series
Gabriel's Inferno books volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Gabriel Emerson, a professor who specializes in Dante, and Julia Mitchell, his graduate student, continue their affair on vacation in Italy, but when Gabriel returns he is confronted by the university administration for becoming involved with a student.
Author
Series
Dante Club novels (Matthew Pearl) volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1870. Five years after a series of Dante-inspired killings disrupted Boston, a man is found murdered in the public gardens of London with an enormous stone around his neck etched with a verse from the Divine Comedy. When more mysterious murders erupt across the city, all in the style of the punishments Dante memorialized in Purgatory, poet Christina Rossetti fears her brother, the Dante-obsessed artist and writer Gabriel Rossetti, will...
10) Inferno: a novel
Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in a hospital in the middle of the night. Disoriented and suffering from a head wound, he recalls nothing of the last thirty-six hours, including how he got there, or the origin of the macabre object that his doctors discover hidden in his belongings. Langdon's world soon erupts into chaos, and he finds himself on the run in Florence with a stoic young woman, Sienna Brooks, whose clever manuevering...
Author
Series
Gabriel's Inferno books volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Enigmatic and sexy, Professor Gabriel Emerson is a well respected Dante specialist by day, but by night he devotes himself to an uninhibited life of pleasure. He uses his notorious good looks and sophisticated charm to gratify his every whim, but is secretly tortured by his dark past and consumed by the profound belief that he is beyond all hope of redemption. When the sweet and innocent Julia Mitchell enrolls as his graduate student, his attraction...
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