Title: Dante in love : the world's greatest poem and how it made history /
Authors: Rubin, Harriet, 1952-
Publisher: Simon & Schuster,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Dante Alighieri,
Abstract: Tracks the great Italian poet following his exile from Florence in 1302, his travels as a fugitive from justice over the next twenty years, and the influence of his journeys on the creation of his poetic masterpiece, "The Divine Comedy."
Contents: Touching the depths -- A time run by dreamers and their dreams -- The difference between one who knows and one who undergoes -- Inferno (1304-8) -- The fearful infant whose ravenous hunger cannot be satisfied -- The ogre of the brotherhood -- The golden sperm -- The difficult discipline of "As pleased another -- Purgatorio (1308-12) -- Virgin discoveries -- Number-crunchers in Paris -- "We have tears for things," said Virgil -- Paradiso (1316-21) -- What the bread God wished.