Title
Dante : The Story of His Life / Marco Santagata.
ISBN
9780674969988
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (496 p.) : 8 line illustrations
Item Number
10.4159/9780674969988 doi
Call Number
PQ4339 .S2613 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
851/.1
Summary
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A Marginal Revolution Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year A Times Higher Education Book of the Week A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Marco Santagata's Dante: The Story of His Life illuminates one of the world's supreme poets from many angles-writer, philosopher, father, courtier, political partisan. Santagata brings together a vast body of Italian scholarship on Dante's medieval world, untangles a complex web of family and political relationships for English readers, and shows how the composition of the Commedia was influenced by local and regional politics. "Reading Marco Santagata's fascinating new biography, the reader is soon forced to acknowledge that one of the cornerstones of Western literature [The Divine Comedy], a poem considered sublime and universal, is the product of vicious factionalism and packed with local scandal." -Tim Parks, London Review of Books "This is a wonderful book. Even if you have not read Dante you will be gripped by its account of one of the most extraordinary figures in the history of literature, and one of the most dramatic periods of European history. If you are a Dantean, it will be your invaluable companion forever." -A. N. Wilson, The Spectator
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)
Frontmatter
Contents
Translator's Note
Abbreviations of Dante's Works
Part One. Florence
1. Childhood (1265-1283)
2. A Strange Florentine (1283-1295)
3. Municipal Man (1295-1301)
4. Condemned to the Stake (1301-1302)
Part Two. Exile
5. At War with Florence (1302-1304)
6. Return to Study and Writing (1304-1306)
7. The Penitent (1306-1310)
8. An Emperor Arrives (1310-1313)
9. The Prophet (1314-1315)
10. Courtier (1316-1321)
Appendix: Genealogical Tables
Abbreviations in Notes
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
