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In the Hand of Dante

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Deep inside the Vatican, a priest discovers the rarest and most valuable art object ever found: the manuscript of The Divine Comedy, written in Dante's own hand.

When a writer named Nick Tosches is called to authenticate it, the temptation proves too great: he steals the manuscript in a last-chance bid to have it all.

As this dark and twisted journey unfolds, so does a parallel tale: the odyssey of Dante himself, a man trying to weave a poem that contains the sum of the world's wisdom and the very breath of the divine.

An astounding masterwork of audacity and beauty.

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No Exit Press
1842430963 / 9781842430965
Paperback / softback
813.54
01/11/2003
United Kingdom
English
Contemporary classics
376 p.
20 cm
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Originally published: Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, 2002.