Dante's Invention: The History Behind Dan Brown's Inferno
By Unknown Author.
Description
From the author of the acclaimed Heloise & Abelard comes a new biography of Dante, following his life through the turbulent world of late middle ages Young Dante Alighieri was a teenage poet. His account of his early life and love, the Vita Nuova, is a model of self-absorption: it tells is about the state of Dante's soul and the pain that his love caused him but it does not mention any other living person by name, it tells us nothing about the battles in which young Dante took part as a cavalryman nor does it give us a single detail about Beatrice.Fate had to work very hard to turn...
ISBN(s)
0752455869, 9780752455860
