Dante in Love: The World's Greatest Poem and How It Made HistorySimon and Schuster, 2005 M04 5 - 274 pages In the vein of Brunelleschi's Dome, Galileo's Daughter, and Wittgenstein's Poker, Dante in Love is a geographic and spiritual re-creation of the poet's travels and the burst of creativity that produced the greatest poem ever written. Dante in Love is the story of the most famous journey in literature. Rubin follows Dante's path as the poet, exiled from Florence, walked the old Jubilee routes that linked monasteries and all roads to Rome and Tuscany -- a path followed by generations of seekers from T. S. Eliot, Sigmund Freud, and Primo Levi to Bruce Springsteen. Following Dante's route, we, too, are inspired to undertake the journey of discovering ourselves. |
Contents
A Time Run by Dreamers and Their Dreams | 3 |
The Difference Between One Who Knows | 23 |
The Fearful Infant Whose Ravenous Hunger | 41 |
The Ogre of the Brotherhood | 63 |
The Golden Sperm | 87 |
The Difficult Discipline of As Pleased Another | 111 |
Can failure be reversed? Wandering the open roads of Italy | 132 |
The Happy Ending | 237 |
Acknowledgments | 259 |
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