Three long-term convicts turned
actors who appeared in the Taviani brothers' prison-set Caesar
Must Die Shakespearian film drama are to get out of jail for
three hours to recite Dante's Inferno at a Rome university
symposium Thursday marking the 700th anniversary of the Supreme
Poet's death.
Filippo, Giovanni and Francesco, serving lengthy terms for
criminal association in the mafia wing of Rebibbia Prison, will
be special guests at the event organized by the pontifical Dante
commission.
The members of the Rebibbia Free Theatre group will tell the
tales of Dante's great sinners Paolo and Francesca, Count
Ugolino and Ulysses in their native Calabrian dialect.
The symposium is titled Dante Alighiero Florentine Fugitive
after the poet's long exile from his native Florence.
The three men said they hoped the three hours would be long
enough for them to "see the stars again" like Dante does when he
emerges from the pit of Hell.
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