Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity - (Shaw Prue)(Paperback)

Prue Shaw is one of the worlds foremost authorities on Dante. Written with the general reader in mind, Reading Dante brings her knowledge to bear in an accessible yet expert introduction to his great poem. This is far more than an exegesis of Dantes three-part Commedia. Shaw communicates the imaginative power, the linguistic skill and the emotional intensity of Dantes poetry--the qualities that make the Commedia perhaps the greatest literary work of all time and not simply a medieval treatise on morality and religion.The book provides a graphic account of the complicated geography of Dantes version of the afterlife and a sure guide to thirteenth-century Florence and the people and places that influenced him. At the same time it offers a literary experience that lifts the reader into the universal realms of poetry and mythology, creating links
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