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Podcast: The Italian Radio Hour
Episode: Dante's Wife (La moglie di Dante) with Marina Marazza
Description:
This week on The Italian Radio Hour - Gemma, the woman Dante never wrote about. What personality did this Florentine woman that no one remembers had?
For love, she marries an inadvisable man: not rich, devoid of political power and moreover a poet. She doesn't let herself be dismayed when he finds himself on the wrong front, in a Florence where the bitter struggle between factions destroys lives and fortunes.
And the rival, the angelic Beatrice? Will Gemma ever confront Dante?
With this novel Marina Marazza brings us another historical novel that recounts the vicissitudes and strength of a...