A SHORT JOURNEY ON DISCOVERING DANTE IN MOVIES: FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE SEVENTH ART TO TODAY

Abstract

The goal that we set with this study was to try to embark on a journey to find out how cinema and tv have narrated the “Supreme poet” Dante and his Divine Comedy through the analysis of movies made starting from the era of silent film to the present day. The corpus of our research consists of about seventy movie sheets made from 1911 to 2021. The results of our research would have brought out, mainly, about twenty movies which we believe can be a valid example of how the cinema and tv were influenced by Dante.

Keywords: Dante; Canticles and characters from the Divine Comedy; analysis of 20 movies; Italian cinema (1911–2021).