Enlightening story of the great poet
Gives interesting insight into the writing of Dante's Inferno - inventing or giving hell an origin story in which we see how greatness emerged from a conflict between ideals. Very enjoyable.
Peter Longden
A novel of Dante Alighieri
The Man Who Made Hell
Stripped of Florence, he gives Hell a shape, an order, and names — and will not lie about what he sees.
- The Unfinished Poem
- A Shape for Hell
- Exile in Ravenna
- The Refusal to Lie
What one mind, stripped of every certainty except the desire to see clearly, was able to make of loss.
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The Man Who Made Hell: The Life of Dante is historical fiction grounded in the documented events of Dante Alighieri's life, his writings, and the historical record of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy.
The novel follows Dante from Florence through exile in Ravenna as he carries the vow made after Beatrice's death and completes the work that will make Hell visible—giving it shape, order, and names, and giving shape to what comes after. It is the record of what one mind, stripped of every certainty except the desire to see clearly, was able to make of loss, exile, and the refusal to lie.
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