Dante Alighieri: A Divided and Divisive Figure

by Elizabeth Greenwood

Book Overview

Dante Alighieri, the medieval Italian lyric poet, has long been the province of right-wing scholars with conservative standards. However, recently, an English conservative prime minister changed all that (probably unbeknown to him) when he declared publicly that he believed in gay marriages because he believed in marriage, thus lifting the interdict on Dante's sexual identity, clearing it of the idealistic mist in which it had been clouded for centuries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1504988116
• ISBN13: 9781504988117
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"