![]() "A magisterial work, the result of a lifetime's devoted engagement with Dante's work and all that went into making the man and the poetry."-Corinna Salvadori Lonergan, Fellow Emeritus, Trinity College, Dublin But above all the poetry itself is seen, rightly and enthusiastically, as a 'coruscation of delight.' "-Robin Kirkpatrick, University of Cambridge ![]() Full weight is given to the ways in which the poet's writings reflect and respond to historical context. "John Took offers a splendidly comprehensive and well-informed account of Dante's work. " Dante is an altogether authoritative and mighty intellectual biography – superlative in its writing and more than comprehensive in breadth of scope."-David Marx, David Marx Book Reviews "Powerful new readings."-Peter Hainsworth, Times Literary Supplement This is a love letter magisterially crafted, eloquently rendered."-Rachel Moss, Times Higher Education ![]() "Took captures passionately and in meticulous detail the intellectual journeying Dante took in becoming one of the great portrait artists of the human condition. ![]()
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