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Jacket: Dante’s Bones: How a Poet Invented Italy, by Guy Raffa, from Harvard University Press

The Story behind Dante’s Bones

Last year, Italy decreed March 25 as National Dante Day. This year marks the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death. To honor these occasions, Guy Raffa explains how he came to write Dante’s Bones: How a Poet Invented Italy, on what some might consider to be a morbid topic. Dante’s Bones