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Transcript: Interview: Harriet Rubin, author of "Dante in Love," discusses Dante's writings
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SCOTT SIMON
Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)
04-24-2004
Interview: Harriet Rubin, author of "Dante in Love," discusses Dante's writings
Host: SCOTT SIMON
Time: 1:00-2:00 PM
SCOTT SIMON, host:
This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon.
Coming up, Pulitzer poet meets reverent rock 'n' roller.
But, first, the exile of Dante Alighieri from Florence in 1802 by Pope Boniface made him an outcast, a fugitive and a wanderer for almost 20 years. He suffered hellish loneliness, longing and anxiety, he began to see his aimless journey as purgatory, and in the end he wrote a sublime epic poem that made him immortal, "The Divine Comedy."
The story of how Dante's travels may have shaped the ...