
Part of a trilogy of “Famous Lives” conceived by Angelo Guglielmi, Vittorio Cottafavi's television series is a rigorous reconstruction of the biography of the great poet, alternating between fiction and documentary sequences.
StatusEnded
TypeMiniseries
Original LanguageItalian
Network
Season 1 of Vita di Dante premiered on December 12, 1965

Giorgio Albertazzi
Dante
Ileana Ghione
Gemma Donati
Davide Montemurri
Francesco Alighieri

Andrea Checchi
Vieri de' Cerchi

Riccardo Cucciolla
Narrator
Mario Baldella
Dino Compagni

Pier Luigi Zollo
Forese Donati

Corrado Annicelli
Palmieri Altoviti

Mario Feliciani
Corso Donati

Luigi Vannucchi
Guido Cavalcanti

Tino Schirinzi
Manetto Portinari

Claudio Gora
Bonifacio VIII

Renzo Montagnani
Lapo Gianni

Renzo Palmer
Giotto

Stefano Satta Flores
Naldo Gherardini

Massimo Foschi
Filippo Argenti