Dante in Love: A BiographyFor William Butler Yeats, Dante Alighieri was "the chief imagination of Christendom." For T. S. Eliot, he was of supreme importance, both as poet and philosopher. Coleridge championed his introduction to an English readership. Tennyson based his poem "Ulysses" on lines from the Inferno. Byron chastised an "Ungrateful Florence" for exiling Dante. The Divine Comedy resonates across five hundred years of our literary canon. |
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III DANTES FLORENCE 126074 | 38 |
IV GEMMA DONATI AND BEATRICE PORTINARI | 53 |
V DANTES EDUCATION | 67 |
VI A NEW CONSTITUTION FOR FLORENCE AND THE SICILIAN VESPERS | 73 |
VII LATE TEENS THE DREAM | 80 |
VIII A POETS APPRENTICESHIP | 104 |
XIV THE COMMON TONGUE | 218 |
XV MEDIEVAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY | 231 |
XVI DANTE IN LOVE WITH A WOMAN IN CASENTINO THE ORIGINS OF THE COMEDY | 243 |
XVII CROWN IMPERIAL 131013 | 265 |
XVIII DANTE IN LOVE AGAIN WITH BEATRICE | 281 |
XIX RAVENNA AND VENICE | 291 |
XX IN PARADISUM | 300 |
XXI DANTES AFTERLIFE | 317 |
IX THE WARRIOR WHO FOUGHT AT CAMPALDINO | 118 |
X DEATH OF BEATRICE | 129 |
XI THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY | 136 |
XII THE DARK WOOD | 167 |
XIII DANTE AND THE PAINTED WORD GIOTTO AT PADUA | 192 |
NOTES | 345 |
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