6/30/2023 0 Comments The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl![]() ![]() ![]() Together, they discover that the source of the murders lies closer than they ever could have imagined. ![]() Oliver Wendell Holmes and outcast police officer Nicolas Rey, the first black member of the Boston police department, place their careers on the line in their efforts to end the killing spree. With the lives of the Boston elite and Dante’s literary future in America at stake, the Dante Club must find the killer before the authorities discover their secret.ĭr. Only the scholars realize that the gruesome murders are modeled on the descriptions from Dante’s Inferno and its account of Hell’s torturous punishments. The powerful Boston Brahmins at Harvard are fighting to keep Dante in obscurity, believing that the infiltration of foreign superstitions onto American bookshelves will prove as corrupting as the immigrants living in Boston Harbor.Īs they struggle to keep their sacred literary cause alive, the plans of the Dante Club are put in further jeopardy when a serial killer unleashes his terror on the city. ![]() Fields-are finishing America’s first translation of The Divine Comedy and preparing to unveil Dante’s remarkable visions to the New World. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, along with publisher J. In 1865 Boston, the members of the Dante Club-poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. ![]()
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