Vittorio Montemaggi offers a detailed theological reading of Dante's Commedia , examining the theme of human interaction, both as it is represented in the poem-the narrator Dante's interaction with other characters-and by the relationship between author and reader. In doing so he locates a Dante we may not be used to imagining, a man aware both of the spiritual power of his work, and of his profound, essential, vulnerability and moral failing.
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Vittorio Montemaggi offers a detailed theological reading of Dante's Commedia , examining the theme of human interaction, both as it is represented in the poem-the narrator Dante's interaction with other characters-and by the relationship between author and reader. In doing so he locates a Dante we may not be used to imagining, a man aware both of the spiritual power of his work, and of his profound, essential, vulnerability and moral failing.
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