Between the Guelfs and the Ghibellines
Tim Parks: Guelfs v. Ghibellines, 14 July 2016
Dante: The Story of His Life
by Marco Santagata, translated by Richard Dixon.
Harvard, 485 pp., £25, April 2016,978 0 674 50486 8 Show More
by Marco Santagata, translated by Richard Dixon.
Harvard, 485 pp., £25, April 2016,
“... and it’s hard to imagine that The Divine Comedy would be an easy book to publish today. Reading Marco Santagata’s fascinating new biography, the reader is soon forced to acknowledge that one of the cornerstones of Western literature, a poem considered sublime and universal, is the product of vicious factionalism and packed with local scandal, much of ... ”
