Dante : : The Story of His Life / / Marco Santagata.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Santagata, Marco,
• MitwirkendeR: Dixon, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (496 p.) :; 8 line illustrations

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A Marginal Revolution Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year A Times Higher Education Book of the Week A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Marco Santagata’s Dante: The Story of His Life illuminates one of the world’s supreme poets from many angles—writer, philosopher, father, courtier, political partisan. Santagata brings together a vast body of Italian scholarship on Dante’s medieval world, untangles a complex web of family and political relationships for English readers, and shows how the composition of the Commedia was influenced by local and regional politics. “Reading Marco Santagata’s fascinating new biography, the reader is soon forced to acknowledge that one of the cornerstones of Western literature [The Divine Comedy], a poem considered sublime and universal, is the product of vicious factionalism and packed with local scandal.” —Tim Parks, London Review of Books “This is a wonderful book. Even if you have not read Dante you will be gripped by its account of one of the most extraordinary figures in the history of literature, and one of the most dramatic periods of European history. If you are a Dantean, it will be your invaluable companion forever.” —A. N. Wilson, The Spectator

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Translator’s Note -- Abbreviations of Dante’s Works -- Part One. Florence -- 1. Childhood (1265–1283) -- 2. A Strange Florentine (1283–1295) -- 3. Municipal Man (1295–1301) -- 4. Condemned to the Stake (1301–1302) -- Part Two. Exile -- 5. At War with Florence (1302–1304) -- 6. Return to Study and Writing (1304–1306) -- 7. The Penitent (1306–1310) -- 8. An Emperor Arrives (1310–1313) -- 9. The Prophet (1314–1315) -- 10. Courtier (1316–1321) -- Appendix: Genealogical Tables -- Abbreviations in Notes -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index