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Dante in love / A.N. Wilson.

By: Publication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.Edition: 1st American edDescription: xii, 386 p. : col. plates ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780374134686 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 851/.1 B 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ4423 .W55 2011
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks PQ4423 .W55 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 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.

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