Dante's divine hype.(Review) From: The Evening Standard (London, England) | Date: August 12, 2002| Author: Griffiths, Eric | COPYRIGHT 2002 Solo Syndication Limited. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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LIFE OF DANTE by Giovanni Boccaccio foreword by AN Wilson

LAST LETTERS OF JACOPO ORTIS by Ugo Foscolo foreword by Valerio Massimo Manfredi both translated by JG Nichols (Hesperus, pound sterling5.99 each)

DANTE did not write the Divine Comedy.

Not that anybody else - a nobleman called Pancetta who liked lads and frozen chickens, for instance - did either.

There is no such poem. Dante never called his wor...

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