In 1991, Peter Greenaway won the Prix Italia for Cantos I-VIII of 'A TV Dante', his ambitious project to produce a [VID] Video version of Dante's 'Inferno'. This literary work and masterpiece has proved an irresistible challenge to artists from Botticelli via William Blake to Rauschenberg - now it meets state-of-the-art technology. Greenaway was first inspired by artist Tom Phillips' illustrated translation of the work and conceived the idea of creating a series of eleven-minute [VID] Videos illustrating each of the thirty-four Cantos. He collaborated with Phillips on the first eight programmes, using all the resources available to the electronic media and the press were unanimous in welcoming their bold new approach to the art of television when they were transmitted on Channel Four in 1990.