Why Dante Matters: An Intelligent Person's Guide by John Took
English | October 15th, 2020 | ISBN: 9781472951045 | 224 pages | EPUB | 0.46 MB
The year 2021 marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, a poet who, as T. S. Eliot put it, 'divides the world with Shakespeare, there being no third'. His, like ours, was a world of moral uncertainty and political violence, all of which made not only for the agony of exile but for an ever deeper meditation on the nature of human happiness.