Dante's Bones: How a Poet Invented Italy by Guy P. Raffa

Dante's Bones: How a Poet Invented Italy

Guy P. Raffa

384 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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A richly detailed graveyard history of the Florentine poet whose dead body shaped Italy from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the Risorgimento, World War I, and Mussolini's fascist dictatorship. Dante, whose Divine Comedy gave the world its ...

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