Dante: A Life in Works

by Robert Hollander

Book Overview

How did Dante come to create his masterpiece, the Divine Comedy, a work unrivaled by any of his other writings? In this book, a preeminent Dante scholar analyzes the only real biography of the poet that we have--his body of works--to illuminate this question. Robert Hollander considers Dante's political writings, commentary, and other poems as well as the Comedy to construct an intellectual biography of the great poet.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300212593
• ISBN13: 9780300212594
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"