Dante, Cinema, and Television

Dante, Cinema, and Television demonstrates the many subtle ways in which Dante's Divine Comedy has been given 'new life' by cinema and television, and underscores the tremendous extent of Dante's staying power in the modern world.

The late Amilcare Iannucci was a professor in the Department of Italian Studies and the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. He was the author of a book on Dante, Forma ed evento nella Divina Commedia, and editor of Dante Today.

'This book proves that scholarship may go beyond the traditional boundaries, through non-traditional devices such as cinema and television. It, therefore, confirms that there are no boundaries in the search to a better understanding of Dante, a literary giant who, in his wildest dreams, could not possibly have thought of his work finding its way through this new venue of communication.'