Seven Centuries Too Late
Barbara Newman: Popes in Hell, 15 July 2021
Dante’s Bones: How a Poet Invented Italy
by Guy Raffa.
Harvard, 370 pp., £28.95, May 2020,978 0 674 98083 9 Show More
by Guy Raffa.
Harvard, 370 pp., £28.95, May 2020,
Poetry in Dialogue in the Duecento and Dante
by David Bowe.
Oxford, 225 pp., £60, November 2020,978 0 19 884957 5 Show More
by David Bowe.
Oxford, 225 pp., £60, November 2020,
Dante’s Christian Ethics: Purgatory and Its Moral Contexts
by George Corbett.
Cambridge, 233 pp., £75, March 2020,978 1 108 48941 6 Show More
by George Corbett.
Cambridge, 233 pp., £75, March 2020,
Why Dante Matters: An Intelligent Person’s Guide
by John Took.
Bloomsbury, 207 pp., £20, October 2020,978 1 4729 5103 8 Show More
by John Took.
Bloomsbury, 207 pp., £20, October 2020,
Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio: Literature, Doctrine, Reality
by Zygmunt Barański.
Legenda, 658 pp., £75, February 2020,978 1 78188 879 7 Show More
by Zygmunt Barański.
Legenda, 658 pp., £75, February 2020,
“... death – in Ravenna, on 14 September 1321, of malaria – and the tributes have been plentiful. Guy Raffa tells the remarkable story of Dante’s afterlife, by turns grotesque, lively and farcical, as the loss and recovery of his bones intertwines with the tempestuous fate of Italy. David Bowe reads Dante in dialogue with other lyricists of the ... ”
