Dante in Love
"A. N. Wilson has a marvelous facility for bringing distant worlds up close....Read Wilson’s book, pick up that copy of the Commedia, and try again."---Los Angeles Times"Accurate, lively, sometimes polemical, and always delicately devout. There is little to disagree with here, and much that encourages conversation."---Financial Times(London)"For this reader, Wilson’s loving, human Dante, a Dante immersed in the Italian landscape, [is] a new Dante entirely….Compelling."---The American Scholar"Not just a thoroughly readable, illuminating story but, with its fascinating store of detail, a practical reference volume…A worthy vade mecum with which to explore Dante’s masterpiece itself."---The Independent(London)