(ANSA) – ROME, 21 SEPTEMBER – “A militant and not very loving Dante was always celebrated and that’s why we hated him at school, they did everything to take him away and instead we have to bring him closer. That’s what I always thought the Divine Poet should be compensated for.” This is how a visibly content Pupi Avati told his DANTE, a film he followed for eighteen years and which he finally released in cinemas from September 29th at the age of 01.
Does art justify a life? “With Dante and Boccaccio, yes, and maybe that applies to me too, even if I have to admit that the best gift for my wife will be to say: I’ll stop making films,” says the director of the Casa del Cinema.
This is the movie. The year is 1350 and Giovanni Boccaccio (Sergio Castellitto) is commissioned to deliver ten gold florins as symbolic compensation to Sister Beatrice (Valeria d’Obici), daughter of Dante Alighieri (Alessandro Sperduti), a nun in Ravenna in the Santo Stefano convent degli olive trees. Dante died in exile in 1321, but his fame spread everywhere.
His last twenty years were terrible, looking for hospitality after being burned at the stake and the beheading inflicted on him and his sons, who in turn fled Florence. The ten guilders would be the symbolic compensation for the confiscation of assets and the unjust judgment.
Confronted with that part of the ecclesiastical world that considers comedy to be a diabolical work, Boccaccio also accepts this commission in order to be able to carry out an investigation into Dante that will enable him to narrate human history and the injustices suffered. On his long journey, Boccaccio will meet, alongside his daughter, those who gave protection and hospitality in the last years of the Ravenna exile and who, on the contrary, rejected the exile and fled. From Florence to Ravenna, Boccaccio stops at the same monasteries, villages and castles to reconstruct its entire history. (HAND).
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