Dante

In this vibrant essay the prestigious Italian medievalist Alessandro Barbero immerses us in Dante's life in light of the society and culture of his time. Thanks to an enormous documentation and analyzing the interventions of the poet in the government of Florence, Barbero manages to reconstruct circumstances such as the social and economic status of the Alighieri, the importance of the poet's marriage and the nature of his political commitment. And so this extraordinary biography reveals to us, more than the writer locked in his study, the ambitious man determined to live intensely the tumultuous and eventful life of the medieval city-states, and that time would consecrate as one of the greatest geniuses of literature. universal.