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ID: 399086

Title: Dante

Author: John Took

Narrator: John Took

Format: Unabridged

Length: 26:34:12

Language: English

Release date: 03-03-20

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Europe, Literary Criticism

Summary:

For all that has been written about the author of the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri

(12651321) remains the best guide to his own life and work. Dantes writings are

therefore never far away in this authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography,

which offers a fresh account of the medieval Florentine poets life and thought before

and after his exile in 1302.

Beginning with the often violent circumstances of Dantes life, the book examines

his successive works as testimony to the course of his passionate humanity: his lyric

poetry through to the Vita nova as the great work of his first period; the Convivio

, De

vulgari eloquentia and the poems of his early years in exile; and the Monarchia and the

Commedia as the product of his maturity. Describing as it does a journey of the mind,

the book confirms the nature of Dantes undertaking as an exploration of what he

himself speaks of as maturity in the flame of love.

The result is an original synthesis of Dantes life and work.

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