An insightful biography of Florence's famous son
Acclaimed biog rap her R.W.B. Lewis traces the life and complex
development? emotional, artistic, philosophical?of this supreme
poet-historian. Here we meet the boy who first encounters the mythic
Beatrice, the lyric poet obsessed with love and death, the grand master
of dramatic narrative and allegory, and his monumental search for
ultimate truth in The Divine Comedy. It is in this masterpiece of
self-discovery and redemption that Lewis finds Dante's own
autobiography?and the sum of all his shifting passions and epiphanies.