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Author
Publisher
Angelico Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Dante Alighieri was early in recognizing that our age has a problem. His hometown, Florence, was at the epicenter of the move from the medieval world to the modern. He realized that awareness of divine reality was shifting, and that if it were lost, dire consequences would follow, The divine comedy was born in a time of troubling transition, which is why it still speaks today. Dante's masterpiece presents a cosmic vision of reality, which he invites...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The author reveals how reading Dante's "The Divine Comedy" helped him find solace, strength, and inner peace after the death of his younger sister and distills the poem's wisdom to help guide others toward healing and finding meaning.
Author
Publisher
HarperWave
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In the aftermath of a heartbreaking tragedy, a scholar and writer uses Dante's Divine Comedy to shepherd him through the dark wood of grief and mourning--a rich and emotionally resonant memoir of suffering, hope, love, and the power of literature to inspire and heal the most devastating loss.Where do we turn when we lose everything? Joseph Luzzi found the answer in the opening of The Divine Comedy: "In the middle of our life's journey, I found myself...
76) Dante: a life
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Dante brings the legendary author--and the medieval Italy of his era-- to vivid life, describing the political intrigue, battles, culture, and society that shaped his writing. Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy has defined how people imagine and depict heaven and hell for over seven centuries. However, outside of Italy, his other works are not well known, and less still is generally known about the context he wrote them in. In Dante, Barbero brings...
77) The Dante Club
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1865, the preparations of the Dante Club--led by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes--to release the first translation of Dante's "The Divine Comedy" are threatened by a series of murders that re-create episodes from "Inferno."
79) The gargoyle
Author
Language
English
Description
Awakening in a burn ward after being horribly burned in a terrible car accident, the cynical narrator is visited by a beautiful and enigmatic sculptress of gargoyles who tells him that they had once been lovers in medieval Germany.