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Civilisation - Romance and Reality

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Kenneth Clark's personal view of the restoration of Western Civilisation from the fall of Rome to the twentieth century. In this episode he journeys from the Loire through Tuscany and Umbria, to the cathedral at Pisa, as he explores the aspirations of the later Middle Ages in France and Italy and looks at the work of Giotto and Dante amonst other artists.