{"product_id":"dante-the-story-of-his-life-9780674504868","title":"Dante: The Story of His Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarco Santagatas Dante: The Story of His Life illuminates one of the worlds supreme poets from many angleswriter  philosopher  father  courtier  political partisan. Santagata brings together a vast body of Italian scholarship on Dantes medieval world  untangles a complex web of family and political relationships for English readers  and shows how the composition of the Commedia was influenced by local and regional politics.  Santagata traces Dantes attempts to establish himself in Florentine society as a man of both letters and action. He raises the intriguing possibility that Dante translated an illness  thought by some to be epilepsy  into an intensely physical phenomenology of love in the Vita Nova. Most importantly  Santagata highlights Dantes constant need to readjust his political stancehis involvement with the pro-Papacy Guelph faction as well as his network of patronsin response to unfolding events. Linking these shifts to the changing ethical and political convictions expressed in the Commedia  Santagata reveals the paradoxical achievement of Dantes masterpiece: a unified  universal poem nonetheless intimately entwined with the day-to-day dealings of its author.  The most striking facet of Dantes personality was a belief in his unique destiny. In every aspect of his lifehis birth under the sign of Gemini  falling in love with Beatrice  banishment from FlorenceDante glimpsed the shadow of his fate. This idea  cultivated by the poet in his youth  grew into the conviction that God had invested him with the prophetic mission of saving humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279585140789,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674504860","price":107.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674504868.jpg?v=1780602833","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/dante-the-story-of-his-life-9780674504868","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}