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In a Dark Wood - What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love (Hardcover)
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In a Dark Wood - What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love (Hardcover)
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A story of love and grief. `I became a widower and a father on the
same day' says Joseph Luzzi. His book tells how Dante's `The Divine
Comedy' helped him to endure his grief, raise their infant
daughter, and rediscover love. When you lose your whole world in a
moment, where do you turn? Joseph Luzzi found the answer in Dante's
opening of The Divine Comedy: `In the middle of our life's journey,
I found myself in a dark wood.' One cold November morning, Luzzi, a
professor and Dante scholar, was told his pregnant wife Katherine
had been in a car accident. She did not survive, but their daughter
Isabel did, delivered by emergency Caesarean a mere forty-five
minutes before her mother died. In one terrible instant, Luzzi
found himself both a widower and a father. In the aftermath of an
unthinkable tragedy, Luzzi turned to the support of his Italian
immigrant family but it wasn't until he turned to Dante's epic poem
- a poem he had devoted his life to studying and teaching - that he
found a way to resurrect his life. Following the same structure as
Dante's epic poem, Luzzi is shepherded out of his own `dark wood,'
passing through the grief-stricken Inferno, the Purgatory of
healing and learning to be a father to Isabel, and ultimately
stepping into the Paradise of rediscovered love. A meditation on
the influence of great art and power to give us strength in our
darkest moments, `In a Dark Wood' opens the door into the mysteries
of Dante's enduring classic. Beautifully written, poignant and
unflinchingly honest, Luzzi's book is a hybrid of heartrending
memoir and meaningful insight into one of the greatest pieces of
literature in all history. Drawing us into man's descent into hell
and back, it is Dante's journey, Luzzi's and our very own.
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