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"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...In the book business, the words 'a life' mean a biography, but the phrase has a deeper, more universal meaning, reflected on a trivial level by the catch phrase of a few years ago that admonished a person to get one. What is a life? What is our journey? Lewis's engaging, subtle life of Dante reminds us that the DIVINE COMEDY is the supreme work imagining that question."Lewis, R. W. B. is the author of 'Dante', published 2001 under ISBN 9780670899098 and ISBN 0670899097.
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