He is considered the greatest European poet of the Middle Ages and his work unfolds the whole panopticon of occidental education – theology, philosophy, sciences, politics and literature. But who has really read it, the “Divine Comedy”? Who knows more of its creator Dante Alighieri than that he had an eagle-like profile and was in love with a woman named Beatrice? 700 years after Dante’s death, the filmmaker Adolfo Conti travels through Italy with Dante’s words in mind and eyes to see the world as Dante did. As the film encounters the beauty of arts and the Tuscan landscape, the forces of nature, a dramatic life story is unfolded.

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A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Carava...

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, h...

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A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imp...
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A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedett...

When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbri...

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...

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When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without...