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La Comedia Divina — Infierno
Milano Films sends Dante's damned abroad on a sheet printed by the house that engraved Verdi.
What
A Spanish-language export poster for L'Inferno (1911), the first Italian feature-length film, printed by the Officine Grafiche G. Ricordi in Milan.
Why
L'Inferno was cinema's first full-length adaptation of a literary monument, built from Doré's engravings and sold worldwide. This sheet is the machinery of that export — Italian art, Spanish text, a global audience assumed.
Notice
Ugolino's tower rendered with engraving discipline rather than poster shorthand; Ricordi's presses were a music-publishing house, and the line has that fineness.
“The oldest poem in Italian, hauled onto the newest surface in the world.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- L'Inferno (1911)
- Country / studio
- Italy · Milano Films
- Printer / stone
- Officine Grafiche G. Ricordi, Milan
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- Italian lithographed export poster, Spanish text, 1911
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
From The World Screen
The Double Bill
Two one-sheets, hung as a pair — a double feature for your wall, at a pairing price of $270.00 for the two. Build one from any two one-sheets in the gallery.
Pair it in the gallery →A house of the Provenance family