pp 280 Good condition. Clean and tightly bound. Very slight darkening to front free endpaper. No inscriptions or annotations. Small mark on lower edge of text block. The book follows Dante through the cities of his exile as he wrote the \'poem of the cosmos\'. It is a multi-layered book: love story, travelogue, biography, history, literary appreciation and a portrait of the times in which Dante lived. It is a reflection on the many varieties of love and fortune through the lens of a personal story. (Taken from the back cover)