Moralizzare il capitale Dante’s Inferno di Henry Otto fra Emerson e Dickens

Abstract

These pages aim to explore the big fortune of the forgotten film Dante’s Inferno directed in 1924 by Henry Otto, and to underline how it is influenced on one side by the peculiar dantism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and on the other by the populist sentimentalism of Dickens’ novel A Christmas Carol.

Keywords

• Dante’s Inferno in silent movies
• Dante in America
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Dickens