Sergio Castellitto as Giovanni Boccaccio

Alessandro Sperduti as Dante giovane

Enrico Lo Verso as Donato degli Albanzani

Alessandro Haber as Abate di Vallombrosa

Gianni Cavina as Piero Giardina

Leopoldo Mastelloni as Bonifacio VIII

Ludovica Pedetta as Gemma Donati

Morena Gentile as Donna gozzuta

Romano Reggiani as Guido Cavalcanti

Carlotta Gamba as Beatrice

Paolo Graziosi as Alighiero di Bellincione

Mariano Rigillo as Meneghino Mezzani

Eliana Miglio as Badessa Santo Stefano degli Ulivi

Valeria D'Obici as Suor Beatrice

Giulio Pizzirani as Dante anziano

Erika Blanc as Gemma Donati anziana

Milena Vukotić as Rigattiera

Nico Toffoli as Ser Manetto Donati

Stefano De Sando as Narratore (voce)

Pilar Abella as

Giuseppe Ansaldi as

Valeria Ascione as

Luca Bagnoli as

Gabriella Barbuti as

Lucia Bianchi as

Maurizio Bronzini as

Rita Caldana as

Raffaella Camarda as

Leonardo Caneva as

Valter Capizzi as

Roberto Ceccacci as

Paola Contini as

Platinette as

Cesare S. Cremonini as

Ilaria D'Urbano as

Armando De Ceccon as

Fabio De Cesari as

Lorenzo Delaugier as

Leonardo Della Bianca as

Antonio Di Grazia as

Rosa Di Liddo as

Paolo Fiorino as

Massimo Fradelloni as

Pier Giuseppe Francione as

Paolo Frosina as

Pierluigi Gigante as

Ambra Giordano as

Eva Antonia Grimaldi as

Stefano Guadagnoli as

Viktorie Ignoto as

Federico Inganni as

Luca Labarile as

Dalia Zagni as

Alessandro Leo as

Giovanni Leuratti as

Giovanna Lombardi as

Valentina Lombardi as

Paolo Madonna as

Andrea Maioli as

Eleonora Manara as

Fernando Mariani as

Marco Marini as

Emilio Martire as

Annalisa Matarazzo as

Massimo Monterotti as

Marco Montingelli as

Federico Neri as

Enzo Ognibene as

Monia Pandolfi as

Sara Pastore as

Alberto Petrolini as

Elisa Pierdominici as

Eleonora Pieroni as

Aline Pilato as

Sofia Vittoria Renzi as

Clive Riche as

Rino Rodio as

Gianluca Roncato as

Maria Pia Ruspoli as

Stella Sabbadin as

Patrizia Sacchi as

Patrizia Salis as

Sofia Salvatore as

Andrea Santonastaso as

Mattia Scaramuzzo as

Corrado Solari as

Donatello Tagliente as

Ginevra Toffoli as

Alberto Uva as

Gianluca Vannucci as

Filippo Velardi as

Maria Irene Vetrano as

Francesco Volpi as

Kristian Zeni as

Holly Irgen as Zia di Gemma Donati

Patrizio Pelizzi as Fazio da Micciole (Capo dei Priori)