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Burns began his latest project, "Dante: Inferno to Paradise," more than eight years ago. ... 'Okay, that was the life of Dante Alighieri, 700 years ago.' But the message is: Your life matters.
Open Window Theatre presents Dante’s INFERNO, adapted and directed by Jeremy Stanbary from the translation by John Ciardi. Learn more about this upcoming production and how to get tickets here!
Ric Burns’s splendid two-part PBS documentary, “Dante: Inferno to Paradise,” has brought Dante’s achievement beyond the groves of academe and into America’s living rooms.
Dante Alighieri's gift to the world, the greatest poem, as he himself fervently believed, ... To order "Dante: Inferno to Paradise" on DVD, visit ShopPBS or call 1-800-PLAY-PBS.
Visit the TV show page for 'Dante: Inferno to Paradise' on Moviefone. Discover the show's synopsis, cast details, and season information. Watch trailers, exclusive interviews, and episode reviews.
For those who have neither read the work nor skipped it in high school, The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is an epic poem narrating the author’s journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.
David Wright article on upcoming staging of Liszt's Symphony on Dante's Divine Comedy and Rachmaninoff's one-act opera Francesca da Rimini by American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botsein ...
The Divine Comedy is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321. ... Beatrice, representing divine revelation, guides Dante from Purgatory into Paradise.
I n Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century Divine Comedy, the narrator—in effect, Dante himself—is led through hell, purgatory, and finally to heaven on a journey that illuminates the meaning of ...