Pbs Dante Inferno To Paradise 2of2 Resurrection...

Emerging from the underworld on Easter morning, Dante and his guide Virgil begin the climb up the seven-story mountain of Purgatory. This realm is portrayed as a place of active transformation, where souls are purged of the "deadly sins" to prepare for heaven.

Beyond the poem itself, "Resurrection" explores the historical fate of the work, including the famous story of how the final cantos of Paradiso were lost and later rediscovered by Boccaccio after Dante's death from malaria. PBS Dante Inferno to Paradise 2of2 Resurrection...

The film details Dante’s life after being permanently banished from his beloved Florence in 1302. It explores how the closing of his "earthly hopes" of returning home fueled his creative fire to finish his masterpiece before his death in Ravenna in 1321. Emerging from the underworld on Easter morning, Dante

concludes that Dante’s resurrection was not just his own. By writing the Comedy in the vernacular Italian (not Latin), he resurrected a dying language. By placing actual historical figures (his friends and enemies) in Paradise, he resurrected political memory. And by ending with a vision of a loving, triune God, he resurrected hope for a 14th-century Europe ravaged by plague, war, and schism. The film details Dante’s life after being permanently

As the documentary closes, we see Dante’s skeleton in a small marble tomb in Ravenna. The inscription, written by a later poet, reads: “To the greatest poet of the fatherland.” Burns then cuts to a modern Florence, a city that banned Dante for life but now names airports after him.

The second part of the PBS documentary Dante: Inferno to Paradise