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After last year’s success, the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago has brought back “Inferno 1911” a cinematic concert featuring the groundbreaking silent film “L’Inferno.” The movie will be accompanied live by pianist Stefano Maccagno and bassist Furio Di Castri, who will perform a musical score composed by Maccagno. “L’Inferno” is a 1911 Italian silent film loosely adapted from the first canticle of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. Taking more tha three years to make, it was the first full-length Italian feature film ever produced. The film’s depictions of Hell closely followed those in the engravings of Gustave Doré for an edition …