If I could recommend only one book on Dante it would be this one by Prue Shaw. Her scholarship is profound and I think she must be a brilliant teacher: she shows an unusual ability to enter imaginatively into the minds of people who don’t have her knowledge. This book isn’t just “approachable”; it comes … Continue reading Prue Shaw, Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity (W. W. Norton) £20.00, reviewed by Edmund Prestwich