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Author Rubin, Harriet, 1952-

Title Dante in love : the world's greatest poem and how it made history / Harriet Rubin.

Imprint New York : Simon & Schuster, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  851.1 D235Dru 2004    ---  Available
Description xii, 274 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-258) and index.
Contents Touching the depths -- A time run by dreamers and their dreams -- The difference between one who knows and one who undergoes - Inferno (1304-8) -- The fearful infant whose ravenous hunger cannot be satisfied -- The ogre of the brotherhood -- The golden sperm -- The difficult discipline of "As pleased another -- Purgatorio (1308-12) -- Virgin discoveries -- Number-crunchers in Paris -- "We have tears for things," said Virgil -- Paradiso (1316-21) -- What the bread God wished.
Subject Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia.
ISBN 0743234464
9780743234467
Standard No. NLGGC 261713566
NZ1 8272661

 
    
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