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Dante's Divine Politics
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Title: Dante's Divine Politics

Release Date: 27 Dec 2021

Runtime: 1h 28m

Genre: Documentary, Drama

Director: Rai Documentari, Artline Films, ARTE, GA&A Productions

Production Companies: Rai Documentari, Artline Films, ARTE, GA&A Productions

Overview: Dante Alighieri was a poet, philosopher and politician in 1300 Florence. The visionary author of "Inferno", the first book of the "Divine Comedy", he was both a direct witness and a narrator of his times and his poem is a remarkable geopolitical chronicle of a tumultuous period of the Middle Ages from 1300 to 1320, a time when Kings, Popes, rulers and warlords played a deadly chess game for the control of Europe. In this high end docudrama, some of the world's finest scholars will help provide historical context to the unfolding of events, making them accessible to a wide audience, and giving us a privileged viewpoint over one of the most eventful and funding chapters of European history.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 7.2 (3 votes)

Cast

  • Dante: Bernardo Casertano
  • Bonifacio VIII: Marco Brancato
  • Cardinale Boccassio: Giovanni Moschella
  • Filippo IV: Francesco Petruzzelli
  • Guglielmo Di Nogaret: Camillo Marcello Ciorciaro
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