Dante's Inferno: Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante's Inferno: Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti ★★ 1969
The flamboyant life of mid-19th century English Pre-Raphaelite artist/poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti is depicted with the usual Russell flair. The drunken, drug-taking, womanizing Rossetti was part of the leading intellectual group of his age, which included Swinburne, Morris, Ruskin, and Rossetti's sister, the poet Christina Ros-setti. 90m/B VHS . GB Oliver Reed; D: Ken Russell.
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