Inquisition

The novel relates the love between Dante Alighieri , scholar and poet, and the aristocrat Beatrice Portinari , and the way her early death inspired his work, particularly the Divina Commedia. The political and...

RL sets out to portray Dante and Beatrice's relationship in the context of the social and political conditions that surrounded them, while simultaneously arguing that the Divina Commedia emerged from this real love, this...

Owenson's hero here is Hilarion, a Portuguese nobleman turned monk and missionary; her heroine is Luxima, Princess of Cashmire, whose rank also brings her an important Hindu religious function. Hilarion goes to India seeking the...