Libri Oro - 6: Il Circolo Dante

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A magnificent blend of fact and fiction, this story serves as a captivating thriller that surprises readers from beginning to end. In 1865 Boston, the literary geniuses of the Dante Club—poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, alongside publisher J. T. Fields—are completing America's first translation of The Divine Comedy, preparing to introduce Dante's visions to the New World. However, powerful Boston Brahmins at Harvard are determined to keep Dante in obscurity, fearing that foreign ideas will corrupt American minds, much like the immigrants arriving at Boston Harbor. As the Dante Club fights to preserve this sacred literary cause, their efforts are derailed by a series of gruesome murders in Boston and Cambridge. The killings are eerily reminiscent of the punishments described in Dante's Inferno, and only this small group of scholars recognizes the connection. With the lives of Boston's elite and Dante's literary future at stake, the members must find the killer before their secret is exposed. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and Nicholas Rey, the first black member of the Boston police, risk their careers to stop the terror, uncovering a shocking truth that lies closer to home than they ever imagined.