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.
- ISBN10 1101162988
- ISBN13 9781101162989
- Publish Date 24 November 2009 (first published 25 June 2001)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Penguin Group
- Format eBook
- Pages 224
- Language English