| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 370 pages) illustrations |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 Renaissance to Italian to nationalist hero, and finally global icon |
| Analysis |
Benito Mussolini |
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Corrado Ricci |
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Dante's body |
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Dante's death |
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Dante's exile |
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Dante's face |
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Dante's tomb |
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Danteum |
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Enrico Pazzi |
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Gabriele D'Annunzio |
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Giovanni Boccaccio |
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Giuseppe Mazzini |
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Italian history |
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Lord Byron |
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Risorgimento |
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Santa Croce |
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Ugo Foscolo |
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cenotaph |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Relics
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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Death and burial
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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Tomb
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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 |
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National characteristics, Italian.
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Italians.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
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Death and burial of a person
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Italians
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National characteristics, Italian
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Relics
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Tombs
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780674246980 |
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0674246985 |
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9780674246966 |
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0674246969 |
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