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'Dante Alighieri returns for the year 2000 and meets an Australian journalist in Rome. Initially sceptical, the journalist is gradually convinced that it is really Dante on a year’s leave from the afterlife …'
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A Blast from the Past
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Quadrant , May vol. 65 no. 5 2021; (p. 74-76)
— Review of The Diviner Comedy : A Novel 2021 single work novel In the jubilee year of 2000, a veteran Australian journalist in Rome, Gerardo Tobino, comes across a down-at-heel but imperious figure who is passed off under the name of Daniele Allegri. Tobino recognises him as a reincarnation of Dante Alighieri, who died 700 years ago, and whose biography he has yearned to write. (Introduction)
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A Blast from the Past
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Quadrant , May vol. 65 no. 5 2021; (p. 74-76)
— Review of The Diviner Comedy : A Novel 2021 single work novel In the jubilee year of 2000, a veteran Australian journalist in Rome, Gerardo Tobino, comes across a down-at-heel but imperious figure who is passed off under the name of Daniele Allegri. Tobino recognises him as a reincarnation of Dante Alighieri, who died 700 years ago, and whose biography he has yearned to write. (Introduction)
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