Title:
Dante in love
Author:
Edition:
1st American ed.
Publication Date:
2011
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
Physical Description:
xii, 386 p., [24] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780374134686
General Note:
"Originally published in 2011 by Atlantic Books ... , Great Britain"--T.p. verso.
Contents:
Why this book has been written -- Rome -- Dante's Florence 1260 -- 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 1310-13 -- Dante in love again with Beatrice -- Ravenna and Venice -- In paradisum -- Dante's afterlife.
Language:
English
