[The Dante Club 01] • Dante
![[The Dante Club 01] • Dante](/cover/TtL40GJu6U-kcQQJ/big/[The%20Dante%20Club%2001]%20%e2%80%a2%20Dante.jpg)
- Authors
- Pearl, Matthew
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Tags
- thriller , sotto forma del corpo di dante , dagli abissi nefandi dell’esistenza alla gloria dell’empireo , compie i più diversi , sterminati itinerari: dalla storia lontanissima , c’è quasi tutto l’italiano del xxi secolo. , adult , dall’ignoranza bruta alla conoscenza teologica , tanto nella commedia quanto in altre sue opere , e , etica e filosofica della civiltà umana. la commedia è tutto questo: un’enciclopedia dell’anima , mystery , reinventandola e portandola integra fino a noi. «sotto ’l velame de li versi strani» , e a dignità , come i suoi possono apparire , sia dal punto di vista immanente sia da quello trascendente , e colloca al centro della scena non solo dio , dante conduce a maturità , l’anima umana , politica , ma anche l’agire dell’uomo nell’esistenza terrena. , al presente , in pressappoco sette giorni di viaggio narrati nella divina commedia , la lingua italiana , che non ha paragoni in tutto l’occidente. per la prima volta dante usa la poesia non per rappresentare il mondo nella sua astrattezza ma per riformarlo
- ISBN
- 9780345490384
- Date
- 2003-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 22.43 MB
- Lang
- it
A magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante's continued grip on our imagination, and a captivating thriller that will surprise readers from beginning to end.
Words can bleed.
In 1865 Boston, the literary geniuses of the Dante Club—poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, along with publisher J. T. Fields—are finishing America's first translation of The Divine Comedy and preparing to unveil Dante's remarkable visions to the New World. The powerful Boston Brahmins at Harvard College are fighting to keep Dante in obscurity, believing that the infiltration of foreign superstitions into American minds will prove as corrupting as the immigrants arriving at Boston Harbor.
The members of the Dante Club fight to keep a sacred literary cause alive, but their plans fall apart when a series of murders erupts through Boston and Cambridge. Only this small group of scholars realizes that the gruesome killings are modeled on the descriptions of Hell's punishments from Dante's Inferno. With the lives of the Boston elite and Dante's literary future in America at stake, the Dante Club members must find the killer before the authorities discover their secret.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and an outcast police officer named Nicholas Rey, the first black member of the Boston police department, must place their careers on the line to end the terror. Together, they discover that the source of the murders lies closer to home than they ever could have imagined.
The Dante Club is a magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante's continued grip on our imagination, and a captivating thriller that will surprise readers from beginning to end.