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Author Raffa, Guy P., author.

Title Dante's bones how a poet invented Italy Guy P. Raffa
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press [2020]

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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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Relics
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Death and burial
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Tomb
SUBJECT Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 fast
Subject National characteristics, Italian.
Italians.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
Death and burial of a person
Italians
National characteristics, Italian
Relics
Tombs
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674246980
0674246985
9780674246966
0674246969