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Dante: A Life | R. W. B. Lewis

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An insightful biography of Florence?s famous son Acclaimed biog rap her R.W.B. Lewis traces the life and complex development? emotional, artistic, philosophical?of this supreme poet-historian. Here we meet the boy who first encounters the mythic Beatrice, the lyric poet obsessed with love and death, the grand master of dramatic narrative and allegory, and his monumental search for ultimate truth in The Divine Comedy. It is in this masterpiece of self-discovery and redemption that Lewis finds Dante?s own autobiography?and the sum of all his shifting passions and epiphanies.

Graywacke

Dante: A Life | R. W. B. Lewis

so-so

A pretty edition and a nice writer, but there‘s not much here. Bibliography is thin, and it devolves into a chapter by chapter Schmoopy book report of the Comedia. Maybe I would have liked it better if it was the first book I had read on Dante. (side note - never thought of reading the bibliography first. Maybe I should do that more often. Here it‘s four not-really-filled pages.)

GingerAntics Oh wow, that is a skimpy bibliography for book. I never thought of reading the bibliography first, either. I may have to take up that practice. Eek. 4y

Graywacke @GingerAntics Right. He must have simply regurgitated others research 🙄 4y

GingerAntics Ugh 4y

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Graywacke

Dante: A Life | R. W. B. Lewis

She‘s like, seriously dad, another book? Do you realize how many you have started recently? (She‘s not wrong.) But I‘ve picked this as my next Dante book before I hunt down a good copy of his Rimes. Lewis‘s book on Florence is wonderful and was one of my spiritual guides to the city during my honeymoon back in 2000 (the other being my wife...who knew the city and a bit about me too.)

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