A.N. Wilson

Dante’s egomania

Dante’s wife Gemma was not the shrew of legend, and may even have been the recipient of one of his most moving Canzone, according to Marco Santagata’s indispensible biography of the poet

  • Dante: The Story of His Life

    Marco Santagata

    The Belknap Press, pp. 485

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