Also included in this volume is a biography of Boccaccio, perhaps as great an influence on world literature as Dante himself.

But then it’s on to the big one, the Commedia, and a canto by canto description of the entire work.

In Why Dante Matters, John Took offers by way of three in particular of Dante's works – the Vita Nova as the great work of his youth, the Convivio as the great work of his middle years and the Commedia as the great work of his maturity ...

An authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography of the author of the Divine Comedy For all that has been written about the author of the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) remains the best guide to his own life and work.

In Alberto Manguel's most personal book to date, the author tracks his own life of curiosity through the reading that has mapped his way. Manguel chooses as his guides a selection of writers who sparked his imagination.

In the spring of 1816, Lord Byron was the greatest poet of his generation and the most famous man in Britain, but his personal life was about to erupt.

Dante Alighieri. interesting to note that Aristotle who holds that move- ment ... Dante places the earthly Paradise ( and therefore Purgatory ) in the ... in author what way the sun circles ; so that we may now mends proceed to ...

In Dante’s Bones, Guy Raffa narrates for the first time the complete course of the poet’s hereafter, from his death and burial in Ravenna in 1321 to a computer-generated reconstruction of his face in 2006.