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1. Libri Oro - 6: Il Circolo Dante

   • Roberta Zuppet

   • 534pagine
   • 19 ore di lettura

   A magnificent blend of fact and fiction, this story serves as a captivating thriller that surprises readers from beginning to end. In 1865 Boston, the literary geniuses of the Dante Club—poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, alongside publisher J. T. Fields—are completing America's first translation of The Divine Comedy, preparing to introduce Dante's visions to the New World. However, powerful Boston Brahmins at Harvard are determined to keep Dante in obscurity, fearing that foreign ideas will corrupt American minds, much like the immigrants arriving at Boston Harbor. As the Dante Club fights to preserve this sacred literary cause, their efforts are derailed by a series of gruesome murders in Boston and Cambridge. The killings are eerily reminiscent of the punishments described in Dante's Inferno, and only this small group of scholars recognizes the connection. With the lives of Boston's elite and Dante's literary future at stake, the members must find the killer before their secret is exposed. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and Nicholas Rey, the first black member of the Boston police, risk their careers to stop the terror, uncovering a shocking truth that lies closer to home than they ever imagined.

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2. The Dante Chamber

   • Matthew Pearl

   • 368pagine
   • 13 ore di lettura

   Memories, fears, the fog of nightmares... Five years after a series of Dante-inspired killings stunned Boston, a politician is found in a London park with his neck crushed by an enormous stone device etched with a verse from the Divine Comedy. When other shocking deaths erupt across the city, all in the style of the penances Dante memorialized in Purgatory, poet Christina Rossetti fears her missing brother, the artist and writer Dante Gabriel Rossetti, will be the next victim. The unwavering Christina enlists poets Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes to decipher the literary clues, and together these unlikely investigators unravel the secrets of Dante’s verses to find Gabriel and stop the killings. Racing between the shimmering mansions of the elite and the seedy corners of London’s underworld, they descend further into the mystery. But when the true inspiration behind the gruesome murders is finally revealed, Christina must confront a more profound terror than anyone had imagined. A dazzling tale of intrigue from the writer Library Journal calls “the reigning king of popular literary historical thrillers,” The Dante Chamber is a riveting journey across London and into both the beauty and darkness of Dante. Expertly blending fact and fiction, Pearl gives us a historical mystery like no other that captivates and surprises until the last page.

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