Dante in love / A.N. Wilson.
Publication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.Edition: 1st American edDescription: xii, 386 p. : col. plates ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780374134686 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Knowledge -- History
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Political and social views
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Relations with women
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia
- Florence (Italy) -- History -- To 1421
- Florence (Italy) -- Intellectual life
- Italy -- History -- 476-1492
- Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559
- 851/.1 B 23
- PQ4423 .W55 2011
Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | NMC Library | Stacks | PQ4423 .W55 2011 | 1 | Available | 33039001184240 |
"Originally published in 2011 by Atlantic Books ... , Great Britain"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.