Dante's bones how a poet invented Italy

Like a saint's relics, Dante's bones have been stolen, exhumed, and worshiped. Guy Raffa narrates the Florentine poet's hereafter--the physical afterlife of the writer who vividly imagined the spiritual afterlife. In the story of the bones lies the tale of Dante's evolution from...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Raffa, Guy P. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press [2020]
Subjects:
Dante Alighieri, > 1265-1321 > Relics.
Dante Alighieri, > 1265-1321 > Death and burial.
Dante Alighieri, > 1265-1321 > Tomb.
Dante Alighieri, > 1265-1321
National characteristics, Italian.
Italians.
Italiens.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
Death and burial of a person
National characteristics, Italian
Relics
Tombs
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Author's Note
  • Prologue: A Discovery of Bones
  • Introduction: Dante's Ghost
  • One. Bones of Contention and Nationhood
  • Two. Bones of Contention and Nationhood
  • Three. Relics of Return and Renewal
  • Note on Texts and Translations
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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