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Crisis of Exile

Season 1 Episode 1 | 5m 53s

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.

Funding for DANTE: INFERNO TO PARADISE was provided by Rosalind P. Walter; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; the George Jenkins Foundation; Dana and Virginia Randt; Artemis Rising Foundation; Viking; the Francesco and Mary Giambelli Foundation; Lori Anne Lo Presti; Sheena and Vijay Vaidyanathan; Patricia and Marshall Geller; and Paolo Miseria.
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