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From: Biography
Date: 20010922
Author:Pinsky, Robert
Dante. R. W. B. Lewis. New York: Penguin/Lipper/Viking, 2001. 205 pp. $19.95.
Dante (Alighieri)
"As the scholar R. W. B. Lewis demonstrates in his brief, loving and unassumingly learned biography, Dante wrote the story of his own life, presenting not the enigma of silence but the greater mystery that grows from knowledge of a life. Lewis accomplishes this complex exposition lucidly, artfully and unobtrusively. The author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Edith Wharton and a splendid book about Florence, he deploys his learning with an expert's grace.
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