01641cam a2200385 i 4500 369639703 TxAuBib 20190208120000.0 020128s2002||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2002020712 9780316895248 0316895245 TxAuBib rda Tosches, Nick. In the hand of Dante / Nick Tosches. First edition. Boston : Little, Brown, [2002] ©2002. 376 pages : hardcover ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier A hand-written manuscript of Dante's The Divine Comedy is discovered in a chamber of the Vatican. From there, the valuable document finds its way to the States where a writer (Nick Tosches as himself) is asked to study its authenticity. Each page of the manuscript is valued at million-plus dollars, and a gruesome cast of characters descend en masse to claim a stake. Meanwhile, alternating chapters flash back to Dante, the genius poet who is in the midst of producing his magnum opus. 20190208. Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 Manuscripts Fiction. Manuscripts Collectors and collecting Fiction. Criminals Fiction. Authors Fiction. Theft Fiction. Mystery fiction. New York (N.Y.) Fiction. Sicily (Italy) Fiction. Psychological fiction. Fiction.