Dante Alighieri s Divine Comedy has, despite its enormous popularity and importance, often stymied readers with its multitudinous characters, references, and themes. But until the publication in 2007 of Guy Raffa s guide to the Inferno, students lacked a suitable resource to help them navigate Dante s underworld. With this new guide to the entire Divine Comedy, Raffa provides readers experts in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Dante neophytes, and everyone in between with a map of the entire poem, from the lowest circle of Hell to the highest sphere of...
Dante Alighieri s Divine Comedy has, despite its enormous popularity and importance, often stymied readers with its multitudinous characters...
Like a saint's relics, Dante's bones have been stolen, exhumed, and worshiped. Guy Raffa narrates the Florentine poet's hereafter-the physical afterlife of the writer who vividly imagined the spiritual afterlife. In the story of the bones lies the tale of Dante's evolution from Renaissance to Italian to nationalist hero, and finally global icon.
Like a saint's relics, Dante's bones have been stolen, exhumed, and worshiped. Guy Raffa narrates the Florentine poet's hereafter-the physical afterli...
