Dante in Love: The World's Greatest Poem and How It Made History

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Simon and Schuster, 2005 M04 5 - 274 páginas
In the vein of Brunelleschi's Dome, Galileo's Daughter, and Wittgenstein's Poker, Dante in Love is a geographic and spiritual re-creation of the poet's travels and the burst of creativity that produced the greatest poem ever written.
Dante in Love is the story of the most famous journey in literature. Rubin follows Dante's path as the poet, exiled from Florence, walked the old Jubilee routes that linked monasteries and all roads to Rome and Tuscany -- a path followed by generations of seekers from T. S. Eliot, Sigmund Freud, and Primo Levi to Bruce Springsteen. Following Dante's route, we, too, are inspired to undertake the journey of discovering ourselves.
 

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A Time Run by Dreamers and Their Dreams
3
The Difference Between One Who Knows
23
The Fearful Infant Whose Ravenous Hunger
41
The Ogre of the Brotherhood
63
The Golden Sperm
87
The Difficult Discipline of As Pleased Another
111
Can failure be reversed? Wandering the open roads of Italy
132
The Happy Ending
237
Acknowledgments
259
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Harriet Rubin was the founder of Doubleday Currency and has published dozens of bestsellers. She is the author of The Princessa: Machiavelli for Women, which has been translated into twenty-three languages. She is on USA TODAY's editorial board and is a consultant to media companies. She currently lives in Manhattan and Portland, Oregon.

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