La marionetta, la morte e il diavolo. Totò lettore di Dante

Totò and Dante: two opposing and complementary figures of the Italian character. Between crude satire and modernist anxieties, movies such as Totò al Giro d'Italia (1948) and Totò all’inferno (1955) offer a freewheeling and irreverent appropriation of Dante’s original epic, in which, if necessary, the Neapolitan comedian regains the gruesome and hell-like roots of his own humor.