Dante in love / A.N. Wilson.
Wilson, A. N., 1950-
2011
PQ4423 .W55 2011 (Mapit)
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Title Dante in love / A.N. Wilson.
Author Wilson, A. N., 1950-
Edition 1st American ed.
ISBN 9780374134686
0374134685
Imprint New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
Language English
Description xii, 386 p., [24] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number PQ4423 .W55 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 851/.1 B
Summary Presents a passionate account of the influential European poet that sets his life against a background of the political turbulence of the 13th century, placing his work in a context of such contemporaries as Giotto, Aquinas, and Pope Boniface VIII.
Note "Originally published in 2011 by Atlantic Books ... , Great Britain"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Why this book has been written
Rome
Dante's Florence 1260
Gemma Donati and Beatrice Portinari
Dante's education
A new constitution for Florence and the Sicilian vespers
Late teens, the dream
A poet's apprenticeship
The warrior who fought at Campaldino
Death of Beatrice
The consolation of philosophy
The dark wood
Dante and the painted word. Giotto at Padua
The common tongue
Medieval autobiography
Dante in love with a woman in Casentino. The origins of The comedy
Crown imperial
Dante in love again with Beatrice
Ravenna and Venice
In paradisum
Dante's afterlife.

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