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Dante : the story of his life / Marco Santagata ; translated by Richard Dixon.

By: Language: English Original language: Italian Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016Description: 485 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
ISBN:
  • 9780674984066 (paperback)
Uniform titles:
  • Dante. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 851.1 SAN 23
Contents:
Part One: Florence -- Childhood (1265-1283) -- A strange Florentine (1283-1295) -- Municipal man (1295-1301) -- Condemned to the stake (1301-1302) -- Part Two: Exile -- At war with Florence (1302-1304) -- Return to study and writing (1304-1306) -- The penitent (1306-1310) -- An emperor arrives (1310-1313) -- The prophet (1314-1315) -- Courtier (1316-1321).
Summary: "Marco Santagata illuminates one of the world's supreme poets from many angles--philosopher, father, courtier, political partisan. He brings together a vast body of Italian scholarship on Dante's medieval world, untangles a complex web of family relationships for English readers, and shows the influence of local and regional politics on his writing."--Provided by publisher.Translation of:: Santagata, Marco., Dante., Milano : Mondadori, 2012
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First published as Dante : il romanzo della sua vita. Milano : Arnoldo Mondadore Editore, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One: Florence -- Childhood (1265-1283) -- A strange Florentine (1283-1295) -- Municipal man (1295-1301) -- Condemned to the stake (1301-1302) -- Part Two: Exile -- At war with Florence (1302-1304) -- Return to study and writing (1304-1306) -- The penitent (1306-1310) -- An emperor arrives (1310-1313) -- The prophet (1314-1315) -- Courtier (1316-1321).

"Marco Santagata illuminates one of the world's supreme poets from many angles--philosopher, father, courtier, political partisan. He brings together a vast body of Italian scholarship on Dante's medieval world, untangles a complex web of family relationships for English readers, and shows the influence of local and regional politics on his writing."--Provided by publisher.