Dante in love
By: A.N. Wilson
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780374134686
Subjects: Intellectual life; History; Relations with women; Knowledge; Political and social views
Notes: "Originally published in 2011 by Atlantic Books ... , Great Britain"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why this book has been written; title: Rome; title: Dante's Florence 1260; title: Gemma Donati and Beatrice Portinari; title: Dante's education; title: A new constitution for Florence and the Sicilian vespers; title: Late teens, the dream; title: A poet's apprenticeship; title: The warrior who fought at Campaldino; title: Death of Beatrice; title: The consolation of philosophy; title: The dark wood; title: Dante and the painted word. Giotto at Padua; title: The common tongue; title: Medieval autobiography; title: Dante in love with a woman in Casentino. The origins of The comedy; title: Crown imperial; title: Dante in love again with Beatrice; title: Ravenna and Venice; title: In paradisum; title: Dante's afterlife.