{"product_id":"dante-9780691208930","title":"Dante","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography of the author of the \u003ci\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor all that has been written about the author of the \u003ci\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e, Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) remains the best guide to his own life and work. Dante's writings are therefore never far away in this authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography, which offers a fresh account of the medieval Florentine poet's life and thought before and after his exile in 1302.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginning with the often violent circumstances of Dante's life, the book examines his successive works as testimony to the course of his passionate humanity: his lyric poetry through to the \u003ci\u003eVita nova\u003c\/i\u003e as the great work of his first period; the \u003ci\u003eConvivio\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDe vulgari eloquentia\u003c\/i\u003e and the poems of his early years in exile; and the \u003ci\u003eMonarchia\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eCommedia\u003c\/i\u003e as the product of his maturity. Describing as it does a journey of the mind, the book confirms the nature of Dante's undertaking as an exploration of what he himself speaks of as \"maturity in the flame of love.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is an original synthesis of Dante's life and work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Took","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42960727310454,"sku":"9780691208930","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_ad5377c0-df1e-45d6-8d65-bda35f8cbd32.jpg?v=1767807116","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/dante-9780691208930","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}