Dante and His World

June 5, 2015 | Posted by Peter Jakobsen | DANTE, THUMBNAIL REVIEWS | 1 Comment |

"Men go to preach, and if they get a laugh their cowls puff up with pride. They ask no more." (Image Giotto, photo Wolfgang Sauber)

(By Thomas Caldecot Chubb)

You might call this an inspired remaking of Dante’s life and thought through his art, with the eye of a poet and scholar, on intimate terms with Aretino, Boccaccio, Dante.  Speculation, necessarily, as much as history but highly informed.  We love the cover that tells us not only is Mr Chubb a graduate of Yale, but he “commutes between his home in Greenwich, Connecticut, and his plantation in southern Georgia.”

The Rimini kids dally, failing to notice the murderous hand creeping at them from the right...

The Rimini kids dally, failing to notice the murderous hand creeping at them from the right…

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