{"product_id":"dante-book-george-holmes-9780192875044","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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe result is an original synthesis of Dante's life and work.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49586603458833,"sku":"GOR013544736","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49594274808081,"sku":"GOR001332596","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49597369909521,"sku":"GOR002992050","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53352355299601,"sku":"GOR002368241","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0192875043.jpg?v=1750940227","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/dante-book-george-holmes-9780192875044","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}