![]() There's no better time to read the Divine Comedy than now But Dante does love a. Dante Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers Geoffrey A. ![]() The opening section, Inferno, where Dante (Watson) journeys to hell in the company of. ![]() It’s bold, beautiful, emotional and utterly engaging. The result is an original synthesis of Dante's life and work. This year marks the 700th anniversary of Dante's death. The result isn’t perfect but it doesn’t matter. Describing as it does a journey of the mind, the book confirms the nature of Dante's undertaking as an exploration of what he himself speaks of as "maturity in the flame of love." Dante's writings are therefore never far away in this authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography, which offers a fresh account of the medieval Florentine poet's life and thought before and after his exile in 1302.īeginning with the often violent circumstances of Dante's 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. Dante: Inferno (Penguin Classics): Dante Alighieri Paperback 30 Mar. An authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography of the author of the Divine Comedyįor all that has been written about the author of the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) remains the best guide to his own life and work.
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