Dante: The Story of His Life

Dante: The Story of His Life

Dante: The Story of His Life

Dante: The Story of His Life

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Overview

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


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674984066
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 05/07/2018
Pages: 496
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.14(d)

About the Author

Marco Santagata is Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Pisa.

Table of Contents

Translator's Note vii

Abbreviations of Dante's Works ix

Part 1 Florence 1

1 Childhood (1265-1283) 3

2 A Strange Florentine (1283-1295) 43

3 Municipal Man (1295-1301) 89

4 Condemned to the Stake (1301-1302) 131

Part 2 Exile 147

5 At War with Florence (1302-1304) 149

6 Return to Study and Writing (1304-1306) 174

7 The Penitent (1306-1310) 187

8 An Emperor Arrives (1310-1313) 235

9 The Prophet (1314-1315) 276

10 Courtier (1316-1321) 302

Appendix: Genealogical Tables 343

Abbreviations in Notes 353

Notes 359

Acknowledgments 465

Index 467

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