Dante

Directed by Pupi Avati | Film screening

September 1350. Giovanni Boccaccio was commissioned to bring ten gold florins as symbolic compensation to Sister Beatrice, daughter of Dante Alighieri, a nun in Ravenna in the monastery of Santo Stefano degli Ulivi.

Dante died in exile in 1321 while his fame, thanks to the popularization of the Commedia, spread everywhere. His last twenty years had been terrible, in continuous flight, seeking hospitality at the various courts, with a sentence to the stake and beheading inflicted both to him and his sons who fled from Florence.

In his long journey Boccaccio, in addition to Dante’s daughter, will meet those who, in the last years of the Ravenna exile, gave him shelter and offered hospitality, and those who, on the contrary, rejected him. Retracing from Florence to Ravenna a part of what was Dante’s journey, stopping in the same convents, villages, castles, and libraries, Boccaccio reconstructs the human story of Dante.

Year: 2021

Language: Italian with English subtitles

Duration: 94′

Free with registration. Doors open at 5:30pm CT.

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