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'Dante Alighieri returns for the year 2000 and meets an Australian journalist in Rome. Initially sceptical, the journalist is gradually convinced that it is really Dante on a year’s leave from the afterlife …'
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
A Blast from the PastPatrick Morgan,
2021single work review — Appears in:
Quadrant,Mayvol.
65no.
52021;(p. 74-76) — Review of
The Diviner Comedy : A NovelDesmond O'Grady,
2021single work novel In the jubilee year of 2000, a veteran Australian journalist in Rome, Gerardo Tobino, comes across a down-at-heel but imperious figure who is passed off under the name of Daniele Allegri. Tobino recognises him as a reincarnation of Dante Alighieri, who died 700 years ago, and whose biography he has yearned to write. (Introduction)
A Blast from the PastPatrick Morgan,
2021single work review — Appears in:
Quadrant,Mayvol.
65no.
52021;(p. 74-76) — Review of
The Diviner Comedy : A NovelDesmond O'Grady,
2021single work novel In the jubilee year of 2000, a veteran Australian journalist in Rome, Gerardo Tobino, comes across a down-at-heel but imperious figure who is passed off under the name of Daniele Allegri. Tobino recognises him as a reincarnation of Dante Alighieri, who died 700 years ago, and whose biography he has yearned to write. (Introduction)
