In a dark wood : what Dante taught me about grief, healing, and the mysteries of love
Luzzi, Joseph2015
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When you lose your whole world in a moment, where do you turn? Joseph Luzzi found the answer in Dante's opening of The Divine Comedy: 'In the middle of our life's journey, I found myself in a dark wood.' One cold November morning, Luzzi, a professor and Dante scholar, was told his pregnant wife Katherine had been in a car accident. She did not survive, but their daughter Isabel did, delivered by emergency Caesarean a mere 45 minutes before her mother died. In one terrible instant, Luzzi found himself both a widower and a father. In the aftermath of an unthinkable tragedy, Luzzi turned to the support of his Italian immigrant family but it wasn't until he turned to Dante's epic poem - a poem he had devoted his life to studying and teaching - that he found a way to resurrect his life.
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Author:
Luzzi, Joseph, author
Imprint:
London : William Collins, 2015.
Collation:
xii, 297 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780008100636 (hbk)
Dewey class:
851.1
LC class:
PQ4390
Local class:
851.1
Language:
English
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BRN:
719862