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  1. TV Dante, A: ‘The Inferno’ Cantos I-Viii (1989 Video)

    Director
    Peter Greenaway; Tom Philips
    Producer
    Kees Kasander; Denis Wigman
    Subject
    English language and literature; Italian studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min., £15.99 (inc. VAT)

    A dramatisation using state-of-the-art visual techniques of Dante’s vision of hell, where figures from Dante’s own time mix with mythological and biblical characters as they suffer for their sins. Dante...

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  2. Dante: The ‘Divine Comedy’ (1999 Video)

    Subject
    Italian studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £29.95 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    An introduction to ‘The Divine Comedy’, containing visual intepretations by the Topiary Dance Group; the Doré illustrations of 1861; location footage from Florence; discussions of themes, plot and...

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  3. Key Moments in the ‘Commedia’ 1: Inferno I, 1 - 3

    Subject
    Italian studies; Literature

    Podcast in which Matthew Traherne of the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies considers the first three lines of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Traherne sets the lines in context, then reads them, first in Italian,...

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  4. Botticelli’s Drawings for the Divine Comedy (2014)

    Director
    Ben McPherson
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 60 minutes), £17.99

    With the patronage of the Medici family, Botticelli created a series of famous illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy. Free and unconventional in his imagery, Botticelli reveals the extent of his genius...

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  5. Strange Landscape, A (1995 Video)

    Director
    Derek Towers
    Subject
    History; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 250 minutes), £780

    Five part series investigating the art and philosophy of the Middle Ages. Part 1. The JEWELLED CITY looks at Gothic cathedral at Chartres, where medieval pilgrims believed they could glimpse paradise. Part 2...

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