Dante Alighieri - Hardcover

Ricardo J. Quinones

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805764054 ISBN 13: 9780805764055

Publisher: Twayne Pub, 1979

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About the Author:

Ricardo J. Quinones is Director of the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies and Josephine Olp Weeks Professor of Comparative Literature at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author of several books, most recently The Changes of Cain (1991).

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