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Article: R. W. B. Lewis. Dante.(Italian Bookshelf)(Book review)
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- Annali d'Italianistica
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- January 1, 2002
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R. W. B. Lewis. Dante. New York: Penguin Putnam, 2001. Pp. 197.
In 1966, Thomas Caldecott Chubb observed in his full-length biography of Dante (Dante and His World) that more had been written about the poet than could ever be read--even if reading were one's full-time occupation. Today, our choices in reading about Dante continue to expand: on one end, the comprehensive work edited by Lansing and Barolini (The Dante Encyclopedia), on the other, the latest book by R.W.B. Lewis. If Lansing and Barolini have produced a work of size and grandeur, Lewis has produced a work analogous to that of the great miniaturists Liberale or Zoppo--a wisp of a book, but nevertheless ...