Dante in Love
A. N. Wilson
Dante in Love
A. N. Wilson
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A. N. Wilson is one of the most popular and bestselling historians and biographers writing in Britain today and in Dante In Love he brings to life one of the western canon's most enigmatic figures.
This is a book for all of us who enjoy poetry and want to think about sdome of the big questions such as the nature of love, the ide aa of redemption, and the possibility of a just society, but cannot tell our Guelphs from our Ghibellines or our Boniface from our Borgias... The narrative is exceptionally lucid and the detail is always vivid. This is biography done by a novelist at the height of his powers. Wilson moves seamlessly between Dante's life, his poems and the historical context... Wilson accomplishes his task with economy and balance... He has written a loving book that is worthy of the divine poet of love.
A. N. Wilson was born in 1950 and educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is a prolific and awarding-winning biographer and celebrated novelist. His most recent novel, Winnie and Wolf, was longlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize. He lives in North London.
This is a book for all of us who enjoy poetry and want to think about sdome of the big questions such as the nature of love, the ide aa of redemption, and the possibility of a just society, but cannot tell our Guelphs from our Ghibellines or our Boniface from our Borgias... The narrative is exceptionally lucid and the detail is always vivid. This is biography done by a novelist at the height of his powers. Wilson moves seamlessly between Dante's life, his poems and the historical context... Wilson accomplishes his task with economy and balance... He has written a loving book that is worthy of the divine poet of love.
A. N. Wilson was born in 1950 and educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is a prolific and awarding-winning biographer and celebrated novelist. His most recent novel, Winnie and Wolf, was longlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize. He lives in North London.