Author: Bindman, David, (and) Stephen Hebron (and) Michael O'Neil
Title: Dante Rediscovered: From Blake to Rodin
Description: Grasmere, The Wordsworth Trust, 2007. 1st. Softcover. Matte softcover featuring one of Dante's illustrations. (6), vii-xii, 1-259 pp. Contains more than 200 true-color images. Dante's Commedia was written in Florentine in the early part of the fourteenth century. Commonly known as The Divine Comedy, it is indisputably one of the world's greatest poems. Remarkably, however, it was not widely known in Britian until the Romantic period, and the first accurate translation of it into English (by Henry Cary) was not published until 1814. This book looks in detail at the British discovery of Italy's finest poet, and explores how some of the leading writers and artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries responded to his work. VG: A fine softcover book with a small crease in the spine.

Keywords: European Artists ; Alighieri, Dante ; ;


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