A richly detailed graveyard history of the Florentine Poet whose dead body shaped Italy from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the Risorgimento, World War I, and Mussolini\'s fascist dictatorship.
Like a saint\'s relics, his bones have b.
Exiled in death as in life, the Florentine Poet has hardly rested in peace over the centuries.
Dante, whose Divine Comedy gave the world its most vividly imagined story of the afterlife, endured an extraordinary afterlife of his own.
A richly detailed graveyard history of the Florentine Poet whose dead body shaped Italy from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the Risorgimento, World War I, and Mussolini\'s fascist dictatorship