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How Dante can save your life, the life-changing wisdom of history's greatest poem, Rod Dreher

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How Dante can save your life, the life-changing wisdom of history's greatest poem, Rod Dreher

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references

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contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

How Dante can save your life

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

897016363

Responsibility statement

Rod Dreher

Sub title

the life-changing wisdom of history's greatest poem

Summary

The opening lines of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri launched Rod Dreher on a journey that rescued him from exile and saved his life. Dreher found that the medieval poem offered him a surprisingly practical way of solving modern problems

Table Of Contents

Part I. From the garden to the dark wood. The child is father to the man ; There and back again-- twice ; The super Tuscan ; The rules of the road -- Part II. Inferno, or, Why are you broken. The stories of our lives ; Into the black hole ; The tempest ; Uncle Jimmy versus the golden calf ; The life of books, the books of life ; The power of the image ; False gods and heretics ; Is life ever not worth living? ; The great and the good ; Sins of the fathers ; The end of all our exploring ; Out of Egypt -- Part III. Purgatorio, or How to be healed. Stand up and walk ; The will to love ; The ghost in you ; Pride ; Envy ; Wrath ; Sloth ; Gluttony ; Lust -- Part IV. Paradiso, or the way things ought to be. Into the light ; Down by the riverside -- Conclusion: How to make your own Dante pilgrimage

Target audience

adult

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