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pp. 222, “The Divine Comedy, completed around 1320, is a supreme work of the imagination. None of Dante’s other works, nor even all of his other works taken together, can rival the Comedy. How did the Florentine exile come to create this masterpiece? What steps in his development can explain the making of this extraordinary poem? In this book, a preeminent Dante scholar turns to the poet’s body of worksthe only real biography of Dante that we haveto illuminate these questions. Through an exposition of Dante’s other writings, Robert Hollander provides a concise intellectual biography of the writer whom many consider the greatest narrative poet of the modern era.
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| ISBN | 0300084943 | |
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| ISBN13 | 9780300084948 | |
| Number of pages | 222 | |
| Original Title | Dante: A Life in Works | |
| Published Date | 2001 | |
| Book Condition | Very Good | |
| Jacket Condition | Very Good | |
| Binding | Hardcover | |
| Size | 8vo | |
| Place of Publication | New Haven | |
| Edition | First edition | |
| Category: | Special Literature | |
| Author: | Robert Hollander | |
| Publisher: | Yale |
pp. 222, “The Divine Comedy, completed around 1320, is a supreme work of the imagination. None of Dante’s other works, nor even all of his other works taken together, can rival the Comedy. How did the Florentine exile come to create this masterpiece? What steps in his development can explain the making of this extraordinary poem? In this book, a preeminent Dante scholar turns to the poet’s body of worksthe only real biography of Dante that we haveto illuminate these questions. Through an exposition of Dante’s other writings, Robert Hollander provides a concise intellectual biography of the writer whom many consider the greatest narrative poet of the modern era.
| Weight | 1 kg |
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