Dante is the film aired tonight on Rai 5 at 21:15 Sunday 12 April 2026. Directed by Pupi Avanti is the story of the human affair of Alighieri, a poet among the great and certainly more known in the world. The film takes its cue from the mission entrusted to Giovanni Boccaccio in 1350: bringing to the daughter of Dante, in Ravenna, a bag of ten florins to compensate for the so bad that the Florentines had done to his father. The collection was of 1.9 million euros in the face of a cost of 7.7 million, the shooting took place between Umbria, Lazio and Emilia Romagna.
Dante la trama
The Dante film takes us back to September 1350. Giovanni Boccaccio is in charge of bringing ten golden 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 release of the Comedy, spread everywhere. His last twenty years were terrible, constantly escaping, seeking hospitality at the various courts, with a condemnation of the rogue and decapitation inflicted both to him and his male children fled in turn from Florence.
Meanwhile, in the Tuscan capital, the balances of power are deeply changed and the city seeks a reappearance, albeit posthumous, with a fellow citizen of this value. The ten florins would be the symbolic compensation for the confiscation of goods and for the condemnation of being burned alive and beheaded decreed almost half a century before by the Florentine commune. Against that part of the ecclesial world which considers the Diabolic Commedia, Giovanni Boccaccio accepts this task in the conviction of being able to carry out an investigation on Dante that allows him to tell the human story and the injustices suffered.
In his long journey Boccaccio besides his daughter will meet those who, in the last years of the exile ravennate, sheltered and offered welcome and who, on the contrary, rejected and fled the exile.
Retracing from Florence to Ravenna a part of what was Dante’s journey, stopping in the same convents, in the same villages, in the same castles, in the widening of the same libraries, in the questions he poses and in the answers he gets, Boccaccio reconstructs Dante’s human affair, until he can tell us his entire story.
Il Cast
Written by Pupi Avati inspired by Boccaccio Trattello’s book in Dante’s laude, the film stars Sergio Castellitto, who dresses the Boccaccio cloths, with him in the cast also Alessandro Sperduti, Enrico Lo Verso and Alessandro Haber.
Sergio Castellitto: Giovanni Boccaccio
Alessandro Sperduti: Dante da giovane
Carlotta Gamba: Beatrice Portinari
Enrico Lo Verso: Donato degli Albanzani
Nico Toffoli: Ser Manetto Donati
Ludovica Pedetta: Gemma Donati da giovane
Erika Blanc: Gemma Donati da anziana
Alessandro Haber: Abate di Vallombrosa
Mariano Rigillo: Meneghino Mezzani
Paolo Graziosi: Alighiero di Bellincione
Leopoldo Mastelloni: Bonifacio VIII
Antonella Ferrari: Madre di Violante
Patrizio Pelizzi: Fazio da Micciole
Dove posso vedere il film Dante?
The film Dante is on Sky and NOW and streams on RaiPlay. You can also rent and/or buy on Amazon Video, Timvision, Rakuten TV, Apple TV Store.
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