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From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 20030223
Author:CARLO WOLFF

'Divine' inspiration

Murder mystery takes its cues from Dante

By CARLO WOLFF Special to the Journal Sentinel

Sunday, February 23, 2003

The Dante Club. By Matthew Pearl. Random House. 370 pages. $24.95.

Matthew Pearl's historical thriller "The Dante Club" brings Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy" to vivid, entertaining life. This debut novel is the second in two years to memorialize Dante. Nick Tosches' longer, less successful "In the Hand of Dante" was published last summer.

On one level, "The Dante Club" is an allegory of intellectual battle. It pits the Dante Club against the Harvard ...

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