Dante Traces The Life And Complex Development - Emotional, Artistic, Philosophical - Of This Supreme Poet-historian, From His Wanderings Through Tuscan Hills And Splendid Churches To His Days As A Young Soldier Fighting For Democracy, And To His Civic Leadership And Years Of Embittered Exile From The City That Would Fiercely Reclaim Him A Century Later. Lewis Reveals The Boy Who First Encounters The Mythic Beatrice, The Lyric Poet Obsessed With Love And Death, And The Grand Master Of Dramatic Narrative And Allegory, As Well As His Monumental Search For Ultimate Truth In The Divine Comedy. It Is In This Masterpiece Of Self-discovery And Redemption That Lewis Finds Dante's Autobiography - And The Sum Of All His Shifting Passions And Epiphanies.--jacket. Dante The Florentine -- Neighborhood Presences: The Early Years -- Love, Poetry, And War: The 1280s -- The Death Of Beatrice And A New Life: 1288-1295 -- The Way Of Politics: 1295-1302 -- The Poet In Exile: 1302-1310: The Comedy Is Begun -- The Middle Of The Journey: 1310-1319 -- Ravenna, 1318-1321: The Comedy Is Finished. R.w.b. Lewis.
Categories:
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Historical
- Europe
- Italy
- Europe
- Historical
Publisher : Viking Press
Author : Lewis, R. W. B.
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2001-06-25
Number Of Pages : 224
Binding : hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0670899097
ISBN-13 : 9780670899098
Item weight : 0.75 lb
Dimensions : 0.8 in x 5.4 in x 7.4 in
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