Topic: Barbara Reynolds
Spectator, The London | 2008-11-06 00:42:31
DANTE : THE POET, THE POLITICAL THINKER, THE MAN by Barbara Reynolds I. B. Tauris,
Dante has suffered rather too much from his admirers.
Barely was he cold in his grave at Ravenna than the process of reinventing him began. The Florentines, who had earlier driven into exile the man they dubbed an instrument of the Devil, hastened to claim him ...
