Crisis of Exile

Dante: Inferno to Paradise
Air Date: 03/18/24

Explore the despair and anger Dante felt after being unjustly exiled from Florence, and how his exile and the death of Beatrice Portinari motivated his writing — and ultimately the creation of The Divine Comedy.

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Part One: The Inferno
S1 Ep1 | 1h 54m 1s

See medieval Florence from 1216 to Dante's birth in 1265, his child, education and more.

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Part Two: Resurrection
S1 Ep2 | 1h 53m 41s

Explore the afterlife and literary and cultural fate of Dante’s masterpiece.

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