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Dante in love / A.N. Wilson.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection PQ4423 .W55 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, A. N., 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Knowledge--History.
- Dante Alighieri.
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Political and social views.
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Relations with women.
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia.
- Florence (Italy)--History--To 1421.
- Florence (Italy).
- Florence (Italy)--Intellectual life.
- Italy--History--476-1492.
- Italy.
- Italy--Intellectual life--1268-1559.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 386 p. ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st American ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
- Contents:
- Why this book has been written
- Rome
- Dante's Florence 1260-74
- Gemma Donati and Beatrice Portinari
- Dante's education
- A new constitution for Florence and the Sicilian vespers
- Late teens, the dream
- A poet's apprenticeship
- The warrior who fought at Campaldino
- Death of Beatrice
- The consolation of philosophy
- The dark wood
- Dante and the painted word. Giotto at Padua
- The common tongue
- Medieval autobiography
- Dante in love with a woman in Casentino. The origins of The comedy
- Crown imperial
- Dante in love again with Beatrice
- Ravenna and Venice
- In paradisum
- Dante's afterlife.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in 2011 by Atlantic Books ... , Great Britain"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Altemus fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780374134686 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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