Dante in love
By: A.N. Wilson
Publisher: Atlantic
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9781848879485; 9780857892614; 9780857400277
Subjects: Sources; Knowledge; History; Political and social views; Relations with women; Intellectual life; Histoire; Vie intellectuelle; Relationer till kvinnor; Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri)
Description: The Divine Comedy resonates across five hundred years of our literary canon. In Dante in Love, A N Wilson presents a glittering study of an artist and his world, arguing that without an understanding of medieval Florence, it is impossible to comprehend the meaning of Dante's great poem.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-374) 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.