A biography of the great epic poem.
Ian Thomson is the author of an acclaimed biography of Primo Levi and of two prize-winning travel books, Bonjour Blanc: A Journey Through Haiti and The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica.
Erudite and urgent, Ian Thomson makes an excellent Virgilian guide
and his Dante's Divine Comedy is another book that everyone ought
to read
*Spectator*
[A] book worth savouring as a chunky, chatty, richly illustrated
guide that brings Dante and his world within our reach
*Evening Standard*
Succinct but wide-ranging, Ian Thomson's richly illustrated
exploration of Dante's masterpiece [is] fun... ingenious...
Fascinating'
*Observer*
This book is an object of great beauty... Thomson's aim,
triumphantly realised, is to remind us why Dante's great poem is a
'landmark'
*Tablet*
[A] lively new book... It has become a cliché to refer to critics
as Virgil, but it would be hard to think of any more appropriate
way to describe what Ian Thomson offers here'
*Catholic Herald*
Thomson teases readers into wanting to find out their own answers.
He'll lead you back to that neglected copy on your book shelf. And
this time you'll pick it up
*Financial Times*
Encapsulates everything we need for the ultimate poetic voyage from
Hell to Paradise by way of Purgatory
*TLS, Books of the Year*
Thomson's elegant, intelligent guide views the epic poem as a kind
of recovery programme for those who have lost their way, and in
turn leads you back to that neglected original on your
bookshelf
*Financial Times, Books of the Year*
Ian Thomson is a travel writer, and here he attempts the most
ambitious journey of all in the company of Dante – "to hell and
back", as he puts it
*Church Times.*
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