Loved talking with Jana Byars about my book DANTE’S BONES: HOW A POET INVENTED ITALY for the New Books Network: https://newbooksnetwork.com/guy-raffa-dantes-bones-how-a-poet-invented-italy-harvard-up-2020/.
You can also listen at https://lithub.com/how-dante-alighieri-invented-italy/
So pleased to see this review of Dante’s Bones in Law & Liberty. Read it here!
DANTE’S BONES discussed (en français) on Radio-Canada. Merci!
Pierre-Luc Brisson : Dante’s Bones. How a Poet Invented Italy
Really enjoyed talking about DANTE’S BONES tonight with best-selling novelist MatthewPearl at Harvard Book Store’s virtual event series!
You can watch the recorded conversation—and others from @HarvardBooks—on Crowdcast
Thank you Lapham’s Quarterly for featuring my words from Dante’s Bones on the poet’s exile, and for adorning them with such stunning images!
If Dante is so great, so quintessentially Italian, this writer asks, whatever happened to his bones? And he means it literally. As it happens, some bones do exist, in a mausoleum in Ravenna—but are they really Dante’s? Who owns them properly, and where do they rightfully belong? The answer is a long and tortuous tale, full of notaries, emissaries, monks, phrenologists, propagandists, physical anthropologists. And that is not all. —Read more here
Jenny McPhee wrote a lively & creative review of DANTE’S BONES in AirMailWeekly, a new digital hub “for the world citizen” from Graydon Carter. She writes:
“In fiction and in fact, Dante Alighieri has been influencing the world order for centuries. Just how he’s achieved global-icon stature is the subject of Guy P. Raffa’s fascinating, comprehensive new book.” Read more here
A tasty morsel of DANTE’S BONES to start the day!
Thrilled to see this excerpt from my book in @lithub
The verdict is in from Library Journal!
VERDICT Pulling together many threads of Dante’s story, Raffa offers an engaging, informative, and original account of the material culture of the poet’s epic body of work. Highly recommended.
Publishers Weekly reviewed DANTE’S BONES: HOW A POET INVENTED ITALY, published by Harvard University Press.
Raffa “devotes this fascinating study to how the treatment of Dante’s remains over the centuries has reflected his centrality to Italian history and culture.” Read more . . .