Dante's Invention: The History Behind Dan Brown's Inferno - Rilegato

Burge, James

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ISBN 10: 0752455869 ISBN 13: 9780752455860

Casa editrice: History Pr Ltd, 2010

Riassunto

From the author of the acclaimed Heloise & Abelard comes a new biography of Dante, following his life through the turbulent world of late middle ages The young Dante Alighieri was a love-sick poet who concentrated on writing rarefied, intellectual verse about Beatrice, the girl he had loved since they were both children. He studiously ignored his own innate talent for narrative horror, and behaved as if he was entirely unaware of the increasingly violent political turmoil that had gripped his city. Fate had to work very hard to make him write the Divine Comedy?this is the story of how it did so. A succession of increasingly painful personal experiences broadened the scope of his vision. When Dante found himself condemned to death in his absence, he could no longer ignore the real world. The result was the epic three-part fantasy that took him the rest of his life to write. The Divine Comedy really does deal with life, the universe, and everything, as Dante recounts the story of his fictional travels across the universe, from Hell to Heaven.

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Recensione:

A bold, readable and well-documented exploration of the imagination of one of the great founder figures of European culture. --David Starkey, Historian

The book wears its considerable scholarship lightly. Written in a no-nonsense, attractive style it combines seriousness with wry humour. Dante, famously, managed to hold the entire universe in his head: James Burge convinces us that he has somehow managed to do the same. --Sir Christopher Frayling

L'autore:

James Burge is a writer and television documentarian. He is the author of Heloise & Abelard: A Twelfth-Century Love Story.

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• Editore: History Pr Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0752455869
• ISBN 13: 9780752455860
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 252