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Podcast: New Books in Italian Studies
Episode: Guy Raffa, "Dante’s Bones: How a Poet Invented Italy" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Description: On this episode of New Books in History, Jana Byars talks with Guy Raffa, Associate Professor of Italian Studies at UT Austin, about his new book, Dante’s Bones: How a Poet Invented Italy (Harvard University Press, 2020).Dante’s Bones is an academic mystery story, the “graveyard history” of Dante Alighieri, the master poet of what has come to be called The Divine Comedy. This book is about Dante’s literal remains and the where and how they’ve been kept.But in tracing that story, Guy Raffa tells a much broader tale about what Dante comes...