Feline Fatale

Once again Linda O. Johnston has written a creative crazy complex and charmingly delightful cozy as Feline fatale is one of the better amateur sleuths in the Pet-Sitter mystery series (see Howl Deadly). Kendra is a caring courageous person who goes the extra kilometer for her friends and loves Dante despite his excesses. Fans of the saga will appreciate the heroine as she tries to identify the murderer to insure Wanda is no longer a suspect.

Creating the

Turning a skeptical eye on the idea that Renaissance artists were widely believed to be as utterly admirable as Vasari claimed, this book re-opens the question of why artists were praised and by whom, and specifically why the language of divinity was invoked, a practice the ancients did not license. The epithet ''divino'' is examined in the context of claims to liberal arts status and to analogy with poets, musicians, and other ''uomini famossi.''

Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture

An autobiographical, self-reflexive meditation that traces the critic's remarkable routes of growth into a world-class scholar

Dante and the Making of a Modern Author

Leading scholar Albert Russell Ascoli traces the metamorphosis of Dante Alighieri - minor Florentine aristocrat, political activist and exile, amateur philosopher and theologian, daring experimental poet - into Dante, author of the Divine Comedy and perhaps the most self-consciously 'authoritative' cultural figure in the Western canon.

Dante: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide (Bloom's Major Poets)

Considered one of the world's greatest writers, Dante was also a great political and philosophical thinker. Examined here are Vita Nuova, Rime Petrose, Inferno, Purgatoria, and Paradiso.

This title also features a comprehensive biography of Dante, a user's guide, detailed plot summaries of each novel, extracts from important critical essays, a complete bibliography of Dante's works, an index of themes and ideas, and editor's notes and introduction by Harold Bloom.